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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W. Chen
3 reviews
1umbrella1's review
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Medical trauma and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Excrement, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
alimata's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
frenchtoast_n_books's review
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I enjoyed what I learned from this book in regards to doctors learning about mortality and facing mortality in their training and practicing years, especially since I learned about the history of cadaver lab and how med school was taught in the 80s and such.
However, the writing structure wasn't for me. Chapters and page breaks seemed to end and start without feeling line a thought was completed. It made for each chapter to be difficult to follow along and I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to get out of my reading experience.
It fell flat for me, and maybe this book would have been better catered to the Liz of a few years ago that was still planning on the med school route. I'm not that Liz anymore, and that could be why I didn't resonate with this book like I thought I would.
I hope others were able to get more from this book and our author's medical journey through mortality.
However, the writing structure wasn't for me. Chapters and page breaks seemed to end and start without feeling line a thought was completed. It made for each chapter to be difficult to follow along and I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to get out of my reading experience.
It fell flat for me, and maybe this book would have been better catered to the Liz of a few years ago that was still planning on the med school route. I'm not that Liz anymore, and that could be why I didn't resonate with this book like I thought I would.
I hope others were able to get more from this book and our author's medical journey through mortality.
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma
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