A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
She lives near Boston with her husband and children..
Blackford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing.
She is also the 2005 cowinner of the Staige D.
Chen\'s first nationally published piece, "Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death," appeared in the fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award.
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In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year.
Chen attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently a member of the faculty.
About the Author: Pauline W.
A superb addition to the best medical literature of our time.
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.
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.
What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives.
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality
