The Price to Be a Doctor: Memoirs of a Medical Student Tapa blanda - 2005

The author was born in Ayapel, Colombia in 1933. Graduated from Javeriana Medical School in 1958. Completed a postgraduate course in cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 and his Cardiology fellowship at Hahenemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, from 1961 to 1963. He was assistant chief of Cardiology at the Allentown Hospital, and is a staff cardiologist at Sacred Heart and Leigh Valley hospitals. He is a member of the A.M.A, the American Heart Association and a fellow of the Inter- American College of Physicians. He resides in Allentown with his wife Agnes, where he has an active independent cardiology practice for almost 36 years. He wanted to write this memoir, to tell the new generation of medical students how hard and difficult studying medicine was, and to remind them how fortunate they are, to be able to study it in an era of impressive hospitals, powerful drugs, and excellent libraries with internet access. But most of all, to appreciate what Medicine is all about: "An honorable and fascinating profession."