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Final Exam

by Pauline W. Chen
Pauline W. Chen
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When Pauline Chen began medical school 20 years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. Almost immediately, Chen 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, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality. She struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. Chen's transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live.

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Publisher: Phoenix Books Edition: Unabridged

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  • File size: 186853 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2016
  • Duration: 06:29:16

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  • File size: 187049 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2016
  • Duration: 06:29:14
  • Number of parts: 6
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Medical Nonfiction

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English

When Pauline Chen began medical school 20 years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. Almost immediately, Chen 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, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality. She struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. Chen's transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live.

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Medical Nonfiction