Final year medical students from Bristol University between 2001 and 2006 reflect on their experience just after they began shadowing people doing the job they would begin when they became doctors in a few months. The accounts were originally submitted as course work, and not intended for publication, but Feest (medical education, Severn Institute, Bristol) and Forbes (palliative medicine, U. of Bristol) thought they deserved a wider readership. The students are not identified. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)