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Provoked by his unsettling experiences, cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar has written an introspective memoir that is also an impassioned plea for medical reform. With American medicine at a crossroads, Doctored is the important work of a writer unafraid to challenge the establishment and incite controversy.

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Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade’s worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights.

Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower. Blatant cronyism determines patient referrals, corporate ties distort medical decisions, and unnecessary tests are routinely performed in order to generate income. Meanwhile, a single patient in Jauhar's hospital might see fifteen specialists in one stay and still fail to receive a full picture of his actual condition.

In Doctored, Jauhar chronicles the formative years of his residency while observing firsthand the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of a cardiologist.

"Lawlor's intentional performance captures the emotional toll that Jauhar's professional decisions take on his sense of self as a person and a caregiver." ---AudioFile
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Doctored

The Disillusionment of an American Physician

Author Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

Publication date Oct 28, 2014

Running time 11 hrs

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