The Intern Blues

The Intern Blues by Robert Marion chronicles an intern's transformative first year in the hospital, blending candid, often darkly comic anecdotes with hard-earned lessons about responsibility, exhaustion, and the fragile humanity of patients and caregivers. Marion vividly portrays the relentless pace, moral dilemmas, and emotional highs and lows of medical training, from grueling overnight shifts to wrenching decisions that test compassion and competence. Both sobering and humane, the book reveals how character and clinical skill are forged through experience, teamwork, and the struggle to maintain empathy under pressure, making it essential reading for aspiring physicians and anyone curious about life on the front lines of medicine.