Every Third Night is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984.
They first met dur Every Third Night is an eye-opening ye.
Judy Levy, in Long Island, New York and is an avid tennis player and practitioner of yoga.
Mitch lives with his wife, Dr.
He has been recognized for his numerous educational contributions in the field and his devotion and commitment to the teaching of residents and fellows.
As a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology and sub-specialist in Gynecologic Oncology, he has had a distinguished academic, clinical and research career in medicine and served as both a Director of Gynecologic Oncology and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at major New York City based university hospitals.
Mitchell Maiman became a physician at age twenty-four and is now retired.
Dr.
The intertwined subplots all mesh together and come crashing down when an unexpected, dramatic and haunting mishap leaves the program reeling and Jimmy\'s life forever transformed.
Jimmy\'s ultra-needy girlfriend and stubborn father do not make things any easier.
And Kim Clark, Jimmy\'s occult but obvious love interest, is at wits end after constantly being tortured by her sadistic Chairman.
Best friend Mike O\'Rourke is driven to madness by an unreasonable superior\'s callousness concerning a dying patient with ovarian cancer.
Co-chief resident Greta Greenberg struggles with her personal dilemma in a busy abortion clinic.
Intern Henry Deluca grapples with the consequences of a horrific surgical complication that he feels responsible for.
He desperately tries to guide his fellow residents through their own personal traumas, but is not nearly as well equipped to handle the pressure as others might think, especially considering the toxic and exhaustive work schedule, unchecked aberrant behavior of attending physicians, and the highly competitive and emotional demands of Ob-Gyn.
Protagonist and chief resident Jimmy Zito seemingly has it all- brilliant clinical skills, handsome, a talented teacher, and a gorgeous girlfriend to boot- but a troubled past and a rash of new conflicts leave him struggling to survive in this, his last month of training.
It brings the reader into the real world of medicine at a time of limited supervision and brutal duty hours through the vantage points of young physicians enduring stressful conflicts and volatile relationships.
Every Third Night is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984
