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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W. Chen
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I enjoyed what I learned from this book in regards to doctors learning about mortality and facing mortality in their training and practicing years, especially since I learned about the history of cadaver lab and how med school was taught in the 80s and such.
However, the writing structure wasn't for me. Chapters and page breaks seemed to end and start without feeling line a thought was completed. It made for each chapter to be difficult to follow along and I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to get out of my reading experience.
It fell flat for me, and maybe this book would have been better catered to the Liz of a few years ago that was still planning on the med school route. I'm not that Liz anymore, and that could be why I didn't resonate with this book like I thought I would.
I hope others were able to get more from this book and our author's medical journey through mortality.
However, the writing structure wasn't for me. Chapters and page breaks seemed to end and start without feeling line a thought was completed. It made for each chapter to be difficult to follow along and I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to get out of my reading experience.
It fell flat for me, and maybe this book would have been better catered to the Liz of a few years ago that was still planning on the med school route. I'm not that Liz anymore, and that could be why I didn't resonate with this book like I thought I would.
I hope others were able to get more from this book and our author's medical journey through mortality.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness