How long does it take to read The Intern Blues?
The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
The Intern Blues by Robert Marion takes about 9 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1989. 510 pages, about 140,250 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children, confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic, skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy, and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Their stories are harrowing and often funny"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Biography, Interns (Medicine), Physicians, biography, Pediatricians, Medicine, Physicians
