Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Chen, Pauline W
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- ISBN 10
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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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- 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
- 1
- 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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