Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W. Chen

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Pauline W. Chen

288 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. Wha...

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challenging 50%
informative 50%
reflective 50%
emotional 25%
sad 25%
tense 25%

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medium 60%
slow 40%

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