You have chosen an honorable profession, one in which you constantly make critical, life-and-death decisions. After enduring undergraduate school, medical school, internships, and residencies, you have worked tirelessly for almost a decade to get where you are now—a practicing physician. But even though you have gone through rigorous schooling and post-graduate training programs, you have received little guidance in the nonclinical aspects of medical practice.

Real World Medicine is an honest glance into the many issues physicians are blindsided by every day: hospital...