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For most people, knowledge of what life on the job is like for healthcare workers comes primarily from two limited vantage points: watching television shows and experiencing their own patient care.The same is true even for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Farris reminds us early on in her sensitive, energetic graphic memoir, See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor."Before I started medical school," she writes, "I was completely unprepared." But, as she shows in her new book, once someone has switched over to becoming a professional healthcare worker, a whole new set of issues presents itself.
At that point, it can be difficult to toggle from patient to patient –- and to remember what it was even like to be the person receiving care.In 2012, not too long after Farris completes her residency, she gives birth to her first child at a hospital in Boston where she works.Her years in medical school and after have already acquainted her with all parts of the birthing process, and her labor does not involve serious complications – but she still experiences a state of shock afterwards.
She observes: "Becoming a patient made me want to rethink everything and reconsider my medical training.What had just happened?"Farris, whose bio gives equal weight to her impressive accomplishments as both doctor and artist, skillfully guides readers on her long and winding medical school journey.
While most people recognize that this process takes years and involves various stages, public knowledge of specifics is often oversimplified, overdramatized, or simply left mysterious.Farris brings readers behind the scenes, to help them develop a better understanding of all aspects of the experience — from anxiety over student loans and persistent bouts of impostor syndrome to friendships forged under stressful circumstances and the impossibility of a work-personal life balance.
She takes us with her into her first-year anatomy class, where th...