Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Author Pauline Chen
Subject End-of-life care, US medical education, mortality
Publisher Knopf
Publication date
January 9, 2007
Pages 288 pp
ISBN 0-307-26353-3

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality is a 2007 book written by surgeon and liver specialist Pauline Chen. The Los Angeles Times described the main goal of the book as "to hold herself and fellow physicians accountable for providing better end-of-life care."[1] She argues that "medical schools can and should do a much better job of preparing doctors to care for the dying."[2]

References

  1. Claire Panosian Dunavan (January 28, 2007). "Merely mortal" Los Angeles Times: R.7.
  2. Richard Miller (Spring 2009). "Nothing To Be Frightened Of/Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality/Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir". Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) 28 (1): 172–83.

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