Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

<p>It looked for a while as if Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer. <br><br>In his acclaimed first memoir, <i>Hot Lights, Cold Steel</i><i>,</i> Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. <i>Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs </i>turns back the clock, taking readers from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion, and humor. From the first time he delivers a baby to being surrounded by death and pain on a daily basis, Collins compellingly writes about how medicine makes him confront, in a very deep and personal way, the nature of God and suffering—and how delicate life can be.</p>

Former construction laborer, cab driver, and dock worker, Michael Collins is also the former chief resident in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He is the author of two acclaimed medical memoirs, Hot Lights, Cold Steel and Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs, and the Vietnam War-era novel All Bleeding Stops. Mike is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He and his wife, Patti, were born, raised, and still live on the West Side of Chicago. Mike is a frequent visitor to the Outer Hebrides where his experiences became the inspiration for this novel.