Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Collins is Teaching Professor of English and Dean Emeritus at Georgetown University. He is editor of 'Reading What's There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth' (2014); 'Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies' (1997); and, with Francis J Ambrosio, 'Text and Teaching: The Search for Human Excellence' (1991). He has published essays on teaching Shakespeare and Shakespeare in performance in 'Shakespeare Quarterly', 'Shakespeare Yearbook', and 'Critical Survey' among other publications. He regularly reviews productions of Shakespeare for 'Shakespeare Bulletin'. He has been a member of the faculty on courses for secondary school teachers at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and Shakespeare's Globe in London. Klappentext 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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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.