Ebook {Epub PDF} Final Exam: A Surgeons Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W. Chen

‎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 20 years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be. Pauline Chen is a surgeon who does liver transplants. She is also a fine writer as FINAL EXAM - A SURGEON'S REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY proves so well. She writes with both passion and humility about the contradiction she sees in the field of medicine: that doctors, who witness death so often that it should almost become routine essentially are no better at dealing with the end of life than their Cited by: Final Exam.: Pauline W. Chen. Vintage Books, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 7 Reviews. 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 Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives-- what she did not count 4/5(7).

Pauline Chen is a surgeon who does liver transplants. She is also a fine writer as FINAL EXAM - A SURGEON'S REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY proves so well. She writes with both passion and humility about the contradiction she sees in the field of medicine: that doctors, who witness death so often that it should almost become routine essentially are no. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality Pauline W. Chen, Author. Knopf $ (p) ISBN Chen charts her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with. By instinct and by training, they avoid what Pauline W. Chen calls "the final exam," the emotional challenges posed by terminally ill patients. Death represents failure. It asks unanswerable.

By instinct and by training, they avoid what Pauline W. Chen calls “the final exam,” the emotional challenges posed by terminally ill patients. Death represents failure. It asks unanswerable. Pauline Chen is a surgeon who does liver transplants. She is also a fine writer as FINAL EXAM - A SURGEON'S REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY proves so well. She writes with both passion and humility about the contradiction she sees in the field of medicine: that doctors, who witness death so often that it should almost become routine essentially are no better at dealing with the end of life than their patients are. At the very end of Final Exam, Chen writes, “I had comforted my patient and his family. I had eased their suffering. I had eased their suffering. I had been present for them during life and despite death.