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020    9780307263537 
020    0307263533 
035    (OCoLC)70259082 
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050 00 RD27.35.C47|bA3 2007 
060 00 2007 E-314 
060 10 WZ 100|bC5185f 2007 
082 00 617.092|aB|222 
100 1  Chen, Pauline W.,|d1964- 
245 10 Final exam :|ba surgeon's reflections on mortality /
       |cPauline W. Chen. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2007. 
300    xv, 267, 1 unnumbered page ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (page [251-268]). 
505 0  1. Principles -- Resurrectionist -- Into the nexus -- See 
       one, do one -- 2. Practice -- The informal curriculum -- M
       and M -- The visible woman -- First, do not harm -- Sorry 
       to inform you -- Through the looking glass. 
520    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
       Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives--
       what she did not count on was how much death would be a 
       part of her work. 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. Over the course of 
       her education, training, and practice, she grappled at 
       strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, 
       struggling 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. 
       Her rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable 
       fact of death becomes, in the end, a provocative 
       questioning of how we should live.--From publisher 
       description. 
600 10 Chen, Pauline W.,|d1964- 
600 12 Chen, Pauline W.,|d1964- 
650  0 Surgeons|vBiography. 
650  0 Death|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650  0 Terminal care|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650 12 Attitude to Death|vPersonal Narratives. 
650 22 Death|vPersonal Narratives. 
650 22 Terminal Care|xethics|vPersonal Narratives. 
650 22 Terminal Care|xpsychology|vPersonal Narratives. 
650 22 Transplantation|vPersonal Narratives. 
994    90|bWHP