1 Answers
Log in to answer

Melvin Konner, M.D. wrote Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School based on his experiences at Galen Memorial Hospital. He had previously completed a two-year course of study at Flexner Medical School that was affiliated with the hospital. Konner had studied anthropology at Harvard and earned his Ph.D. by the time he was twenty-five. He had done two years of anthropological research in Africa and opted to teach anthropology for six years as a Harvard professor when he became a medical student.