

Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs
The Making of a Surgeon
Author: Michael J. Collins, MD
Narrator: John Pruden
Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/28/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs turns back the clock, taking listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion and humor. From the first time he delivers a baby to being surrounded by death and pain on a daily basis, Collins compellingly writes about how medicine makes him confront, in a very deep and personal way, the nature of God and suffering—and how delicate life can be.