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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Gilbert Cruz](https://time.com/author/gilbert-cruz/) Mar 12, 2009 4:00 AM UTC  by [Gilbert Cruz](https://time.com/author/gilbert-cruz/) Mar 12, 2009 4:00 AM UTC _Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year_ _in the Lives of Three New Doctors_ _By Brian Eule_ _261 pages; St. Martin’s Press_ **The Gist:** Final year medical students have to endure one of the more painful (and joyful) single days in academia — Match Day. Every graduating med student must submit his or her top residency program choices to a national database; a computer then combines the students’ choices with the hospitals’ preferences and spits out a match — which both sides are obliged to abide by. On the third Thursday in March, these graduates find out where they will serve their first few years as a hospital intern and resident. It’s a day that can define careers — and make or break relationships. Journalist Brian Eule had an inside track on the turmoil that Match Day can cause in a relationship: his girlfriend Stephanie was herself about to embark upon the long journey to becoming a surgeon. Eule trains his eye on his relationship (and that of two other couples); his book details the havoc that the medical field can wreck on family lives. ([“See the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2008.”](https://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948%5F1863993,00.html)) **Highlight Reel:** **1**. _On some universities’ special Match Day traditions_: “On the third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer’s results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into a microphone, and announced the result to classmates, family, and anybody watching on Vanderbilt’s live Webcast.” **2**. _On the R.O.A.D. to Happiness_: “R.O.A.D. stood for residencies in radiology, opthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology. These specialties usually paid better than a career in family or internal medicine. For students leaving medical school with an average debt of more than $100,000, income was an important consideration. A R.O.A.D. specialty also meant a better ability to have what doctors called a controllable lifestyle. On the R.O.A.D., schedules were more predictable. There were fewer emergencies. Nights spent on call at the hospital were limited. On the R.O.A.D., a doctor could reliably make good on commitments other than work. On the R.O.A.D., becoming a doctor did not mean choosing career over family.” **3**. _On how to figure out a doctor’s specialty_: “That was one way you could distinguish a surgeon from another doctor. Internal medicine residents typically draped the stethoscopes over their necks. Some anesthesiologists hung it from a holster on the hip. Surgeons, Stephanie was told in medical school, kept the stethoscope in the coat pocket.” **The Lowdown:** Eule is writing about his now-wife and their friends, so the book is bound to be full of overly-cute personal asides. And while there are very few grace-notes (his attempts at flowery descriptive phrases are both unnecessary and square), when he sticks to the facts of his subjects’ lives, Eule tells a dramatic tale of the compromises that young doctors (especially women) must make in order to succeed. “No program wanted one of its residents to get pregnant,” he writes at one point, rocketing to the heart of the medical training tradition — grueling hours and almost complete devotion to the job. As he writes, many hospitals seem to want to discourage their young doctors from even the idea of having a family life. There’s little doubt that anyone who reads _Match Day_ will look at their doctors in the same way. **The Verdict**: Read [See a conversation with NOVA host Neil DeGrasse Tyson.](https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1872621,00.html) [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6909792/match-day-young-doctors-in-hell/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6909792/match-day-young-doctors-in-hell/"},"headline":"Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell","datePublished":"2009-03-12T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T15:53:13.804Z","description":"Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Yearin the Lives of Three New DoctorsBy Brian Eule261 pages; St. Martin's PressThe Gist:Final year medical students have...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6909792/match-day-young-doctors-in-hell/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt343bb572e5627f72/698a4b15b21a9c59fc508ce8/360_match_day_0227.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Gilbert Cruz","url":"https://time.com/author/gilbert-cruz/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt343bb572e5627f72/698a4b15b21a9c59fc508ce8/360_match_day_0227.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_match_day_0227.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6909792/match-day-young-doctors-in-hell/","name":"Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell"}}]}] ```