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Final exam follows chen over the course of her education and practice as she struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate sense of empathy and humanity. When pauline chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. Final exam chronicles chens journey from medical student to attending surgeon and examines her experiences with death and serious illness of patients, family members, friends. Chen 2008, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. A young surgeons reflections on mortality by pauline w. Final exam a surgeons reflections on mortality pauline w chen author. A surgeons reflections on mortality chen, pauline w. Chen, a surgeon specializing in liver transplants, is her own patient in final exam, a series of thoughtful, moving essays on the troubled. In the mid1990s there was a large study of hospital care given to dying patients. This book is well written and an easy read for the layman. A surgeons reflections on mortality is a deeply felt plea to all of us to turn away from turning away. A surgeons reflections on mortality by pauline chen, md alfred a knopf 2007 268 pages isbn.
That surgeon s total failure to convey news that an expected benign tumor was advanced stage cancer emotionally gutted his groggy patient. A surgeons reflections on mortality paperback by pauline w. A surgeons reflections on mortality is a 2007 book written by surgeon and liver specialist pauline chen. There were many calls for reform and many new corrective programs. Back then, as now, american medical school admissions committees required every applicant to sit for the mcat.
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