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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Locks Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Even Doctors Cry tells the story of Doctor Alvin Reiter, his success as a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, his love for his profession and his pride in his work. Its a riveting story of love, death, scandal and a terribly flawed medical system. --Amazon.