Doctored

by Sandeep Jauhar

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  Copyright © 2014 by Sandeep Jauhar

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  First edition, 2014

  Portions of this book originally appeared in different form in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the anthology Becoming a Doctor (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010).

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968–

  Doctored: the disillusionment of an American physician / Sandeep Jauhar. — First edition.

  p. ; cm.

  ISBN 978-0-374-14139-4 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4299-4584-4 (ebook)

  I. Title.

  [DNLM: 1. Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968– 2. Physicians—United States—Autobiography. 3. Delivery of Health Care—trends—United States. WZ 100]

  R153

  610.92—dc23

  [B]

  2013041344

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