Chen, a brilliant transplant surgeon, charts her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with mortality. Focusing on the enormous moral and psychological pressures on doctors, Chen also reports on signs of change within the profession.
Its Christmastime and 11-year-old Peiling Wang feels completely left out. Her family is from Taiwan, and even though they have been living in America since she was small, they have never once celebrated the biggest holiday of the year. Peiling musters up the courage to ask her parents if they can celebrate the holiday this year.
"The Best American Medical Writing 2009 "highlights the year's most poignant work from the genre's fi nest authors-- complete with an introduction by best-selling author and renowned transplant surgeon Pauline W. Chen. "The Best American Medical Writing 2009 "celebrates incisive writing on the subject of medicine and its practice. This inaugural ...
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