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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality  [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

by Chen, Pauline W

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page (signature only). Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Dust jacket has faint edgewear. Book has mild toning to the edges of the pageblock. 'Cody Books Autographed Copy' sticker. Chen is a surgeon, NY Times columnist, and author of the online column "Doctor and Patient". She is the recipient of the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year Award and the George Longstreth Humanness Award at Yale. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Pauline W. Chen attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently a member of the faculty. In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year. Dr. Chen’s first nationally published piece, “Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death,” appeared in the fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award. She is also the 2005 cowinner of the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing. She lives near Boston with her husband and children.

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Title
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Author
Chen, Pauline W
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
0307263533
ISBN 13
9780307263537
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2007
Pages
268
LCCN
2006049361

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