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Title: Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)
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| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage A Courageous Book |
| This book is a call for doctors to provide comfort to patients when cures are no longer viable. She urges doctors to engage with persons as a complex, integrated whole rather than as an impersonal clinical case. The book is a heart felt philosophical argument against medical deconstructivism that illicits almost knee-jerk "do something" responds to illnesses. Complicated ritualistic processes or treatment algorithms focus on the disease rather than the person who suffers. Dr. Chen is amazingly courageous in writing this much needed book and she openly questions herself as well as the medical culture and educative process that "made her." |
| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage Wow. |
I picked up Final Exam from the "new" table while perusing a used bookstore. It spoke to me as I was struggling with the loss of a dear friend. While this dear friend was a canine, it brought to the surface the fact that I don't acknowledge one of life's most unavoidable truths very well.
To think that doctors didn't either both scared and enticed me into the impulse purchase.
Chen's writing is so adaptable, at once crisp and purposeful but never too cold or stale. From early on I was amazed at her openness and honesty, about a subject that clearly many of her counterparts would not appreciate as it would only call forward their own challenges and failings.
The prime element of handling mortality is woven through HER story which she presents with interesting detail about childhood, medical school and clinical training. Interwoven are brief intimate looks into the lives of some of her patients, and you come away from the book feeling more human and more educated. |
| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage A touching memoir |
| Pauline Chen has written a touching memoir, one that captures the emotions of patients and their physicians that must confront their own mortality. From experiences with death as an adolescent to the daily experience of a transplant surgeon with life and death issues, Pauline beautifully captures her and her patient's emotions and courage with life threatening illnesses. This book should be required reading for all medical students and has a lot to offer for anyone interested in how physicians and their patients deal with life and death. |
| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage Transplanting your liver |
| Thoughtful and moving essays by a transplant surgeon with roots in Taiwan, which cut to the bone of death and dying, or morbidity and mortality as the docs may put it. |
| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage Death from a diferent perspective |
| A moving narrative of Dr. Chan's professional life beginning as a medical student and then as a transplant surgeon. As a lay person I never appreciated a doctor's training and the emotional ups and downs dealing with death. |
| Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) by Vintage Product Description |
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she 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 and practice as she struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate sense of empathy and humanity. A superb addition to the best medical literature of our time. |
