How long does it take to read Becoming a Doctor?
Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner takes about 7 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 390 pages, about 107,250 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An account of what happened as the author and his fellow students lived through the crises of their first clinical hospital work and started to become doctors.
Subjects: Biography, Medical Schools, Medical students, Medicine, Popular works, Medical Education
