Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality AUTH-3805528 Washington and Vinalhaven Island

Washington and Vinalhaven Island

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

The Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin

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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality AUTH-3805528 Washington and Vinalhaven IslandA 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