I got In Stitches by Anthony Youn for Christmas. Up until now, any reading I have done related to medical school has been aimed at getting in. Now that I have an acceptance, I want to get an idea of what the hell I'm getting myself into. In that regard, I actually feel like I am well behind most other pre-meds. It seems like all other pre-meds either have a parent who is a doctor or a long line of relatives who are doctors, and these students have some idea of what the whole process is like. In my family, it'll just be me, and I have no idea what the hell is coming next.
I have mixed feelings about the book. I thought the first half was pretty disappointing. Literally the first hundred pages were concerned with his troubles with girls, and I have to say... I just didn't care. Also, his thoughts on his jaw surgery were remarkably brief, which was disappointing. As a doctor who would go on to become a plastic surgeon, I had hoped he would share more thoughts on his own time under the knife.
