Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality AUTH-3805528 twenty-five poems originally published in

twenty-five poems originally published in periodicals but not previously collected

Washington and Vinalhaven Island

With news that a friend is missing

male -- intent on acquiring political power

and a table of recurrence formulas supplement the text

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality AUTH-3805528 twenty-five poems originally published inA brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality. When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically