A gritty, fictionalized memoir that explores a range of human suffering with heart, soul, and humor.
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ABOUT ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT:
James Banks is a medical student in Brighton, a rural town in Kentucky’s Appalachia, a region stricken with poverty and an opioid epidemic.
James just wants to match with a good psychiatry residency and graduate.
But he has just received a rejection from a residency he applied to, and he has a bad feeling that he failed a medical licensing exam.
Failure is not an option. James must become a doctor to pay off $230,000 in student loans.
James runs a gauntlet of clinical rotations in different specialties: family medicine, osteopathic medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, emergency medicine, cardiology, neurology, and neurosurgery.
He encounters a motley cast of patients and doctors―including a patient with blue skin and a hostile, tantrum-throwing ob-gyn―who teach him how to become a physician.
He sees the best and worst in humanity and even patients who have glimpsed heaven and hell.
Adventures of an American Medical Student is a compelling, gritty novel that explores a range of human suffering with heart, soul, and humor.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Champion is a psychiatrist practicing in Appalachia.
He supervises psychiatry residents, teaches medical students, and collaborates with nurse practitioners.
He has a D.O. degree from an Appalachian medical school, and he lives in Tennessee.
This is his first book.
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