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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 609
EAN: 9780307275370
ISBN: 030727537X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: January 08, 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A balm to my spirit
I just finished Final Exam.
Three weeks ago, we marked the fourth anniversary of my son's death. In a week, we will remember him on what would have been his thirteenth birthday.
I found Andrew having seizures and called the paramedics. After seven hours of surgery, the neurosurgeon could not find a way to tell me that Andrew had died. Instead, he described in horrible, excruciating detail what he had done to try to save my son and what we could expect if Andrew survived. ... Read More
Rating: - Lovely reading
Autobiographical, well written and organized, sensitive and upbeat, Dr. Chen shares with us her experiences as a medical student and as a doctor. I enjoyed the chapter on dissection of the human body and the stories of patients. It reads as if one were talking to a friend. Thanks for the lovely book.
Rating: - Final Exam
This book is an excellent resource for caregivers who work with terminally-ill people: clergy, social workers, hospice volunteers, family members, etc. It provides a clear picture of the daily world of professional medical personnel, offering a rare insight into the personal dilemmas and struggles they encounter, but which are not shared with others.
Rating: - Final Exam
Very moving at times. The medical profession is a world of its own. Power is too concentrated. The education process is to dehumanizing. It's difficult for human beings to emerge from the process.
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
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