{"id":48829,"date":"2021-11-26T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48829"},"modified":"2021-11-26T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:46:55","slug":"committed-dispatches-from-a-psychiatrist-in-training-by-adam-stern-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/committed-dispatches-from-a-psychiatrist-in-training-by-adam-stern-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training by Adam Stern [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48830\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/Committed-Adam-Stern-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/Committed-Adam-Stern-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/Committed-Adam-Stern-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>Adam Stern began his Harvard career feeling like an impostor when he was matched into a Harvard Medical School psychiatry residency impeded, he worried, by his upstate-New York medical degree: \u201cI found myself soaring into one of the most prestigious residency programs in the country, but I wouldn\u2019t imagine a scenario that didn\u2019t involve crashing back to earth.\u201d The grueling four-years\u2019 training he reveals here include plenty of crashes \u2013 both professional and personal \u2013 shared with his class of 15 fellow residents, other colleagues, helpful teachers, beloved mentors, and \u2013 perhaps most importantly\u2014the patients he met.<\/p>\n<p>Stern writes and narrates with unadorned honesty as he \u201clearn[s] the meaning of failure and appreciate[s] the preciousness of success.\u201d Amidst the unrelenting exhaustion, lifelong relationships develop \u2013 including finding his wife \u2013 even as sometimes lives are lost. The strongest moments belong to patients \u2013 a collegiate anorexic, a suicidal man with cancer, a nuisance caller who uses the emergency pager when she can\u2019t sleep \u2013 who merit his empathic aural attention.<\/p>\n<p>Impostor no more, Stern remains at Harvard as a professor, and is Director of Psychiatry at one of Boston\u2019s top medical centers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Committed-Dispatches-from-a-Psychiatrist-in-Training-\/pid=9753301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Stern began his Harvard career feeling like an impostor when he was matched into a Harvard Medical School psychiatry residency impeded, he worried, by his upstate-New York medical degree: \u201cI found myself soaring into one of the most prestigious residency programs in the country,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,312,107,20,6535],"tags":[10041,6608,6668,7631,9505,10,189,11,51,13,7292,39],"class_list":["post-48829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-jewish","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-adam-stern","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-committed","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-love","tag-mental-illness","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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