Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon Review
This is my first review. I read Collins' first book - 'The Making of a Surgeon' - which I thought was terrific. I have read a lot about medicine but But 'Blue Collar' really takes the cake. This is truly a book about life. It happens to be a doctor's life but it covers the whole scope of a person's efforts to find the right job, have the fortitude to pursue it, find the right gal - and his wife is just fabulous - and so on. It's exciting in many parts but so touching in his relationships, so HONEST in his reflections as an MD. I just loved it. As I said it is a book about out life which is by the way very humorous and well written to boot.
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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon Overview
It looked for a while as if Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer.
In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs turns back the clock, taking readers from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion, and humor. From the first time he delivers a baby to being surrounded by death and pain on a daily basis, Collins compellingly writes about how medicine makes him confront, in a very deep and personal way, the nature of God and suffering—and how delicate life can be.
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Witty and Funny - JH - Lincoln, NE USA
A coming-of-age story about the author's non-traditional path to medical school, the book is a quick read. His first person perspective captures the emotions of a neurotic premed a few years older than the rest of his class, to a grateful and neurotic medical student who eventually develops the confidence to "cut it" in the strange and wonderful environment of medical school. Witty and funny, the author captures details that only a self-aware individual could catch. I was pleased to read this book, and look forward to the next book by Doctor Collins.
Good, but not as good as his first one - Cordell M. Tolstad - green valley, az
Good, but not as good as his first. I admire his work ethic, he better have a good attitude with all those kids!
Great Author, Great Doctor - Grandma Moses - Chicago, IL United States
Just as entertaining and informative as Collins' first book "Hot Lights, Cold Steel." It is a fast read in that it's hard to put down. Collins describes how he decided to become a doctor and his life during medical school at Loyola. Only complaint I have is that he would have written this book before "Hot Lights, Cold Steel."
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