Final Exam A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Name: Final Exam A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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ISBN: 9780307275370

ISBN-10: 030727537X

ISBN-13: 9780307275370

Edition: N/A

Authors: Pauline W. Chen

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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 Examfollows 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…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.93" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English