Analyzing Perri Klass 'Four Years As A Medical Student'

The novel "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure... Four Years As A Medical Student" was written by Perri Klass. Perri Klass wrote the book in order to allow readers to understand how doctors are really trained from the perspective of a woman. Throughout the novel, Perri Klass described how she handled the pre-clinical years, clinical years, and hospital ethics and hierarchy during her four years in medical school. I for one enjoyed the novel, even though Perri Klass described her training from a woman's perspective I was still able to learn from her experiences in medical school.

For example, Perri Klass described the essential courses that had to be taken during her first two years of medical school. During the first year, Perri stated that she