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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Author: Pauline W. Chen

Manufacturer: Knopf

Keywords: Nursing

ISBN: 0307263533

Book description

A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, and struggles to reconcile the lessons of her…

Book review: Superb .. A Doctor's perspective on mortality

Doctors train to save lives but the blunt truth is that many of them will spend more time in their careers facing death. Dr. Pauline Chen's musings on death, mortality and end of life medical care are… That's what I felt reading this book. The vocabulary is a treat, the content informative, her stories interesting. She is to be applauded for her expertise, courage and for putting into words what…