Year of the Intern

Robin Cook acknowledges the reality of the content and how it is based upon his own experience as a young intern. This was 95% auto biographical and would probably appeal more to the American readership.
Although a lot has happened in medicine since then, Dr. Cook emphasizes that the experiences of an intern during that year are still more or less the same. Hence "The Year of the Intern" is basically very accurate.
This book is a very medical book. Almost mirrorizing what goes on in all departments of a large busy hospital day and night. Detailed descriptions of cases, treatment, operations, medication. Everything that goes on behind the scenes. Serious - at times brutal - sad, heartwarming, touching.