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LUZA FERNANDEZ, Diego. The human cost of becoming a doctor, a social and emotional view of the Diary of a medical intern by Daniel Rojas. Desde el Sur [online]. 2024, vol.16, n.4, e0064.  Epub 31-Oct-2024. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1604-2024-0064.

This article seeks to analyze the Diary of a medical intern from the perspective of human development and the sociological theory related to educational processes to characterize medical training in the internships. The aim is to reconstruct, through qualitative analysis of the discourse of this testimony, the educational system built around the training of doctors, especially in a crucial period such as internship, in which medical practice is learned within the hospital. In this scenario, learning occurs related to medical knowledge and disease treatments, but also towards attitudes, emotions, and behaviors as a product of social interactions between the actors in health establishments. They shed light on a health system with many material deficiencies that reproduce situations of mistreatment and humiliation not only among doctors, but also towards patients.

Palabras clave : Education; medicine; agency; human development.

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