Pauline Chen, M.D.
A respected surgeon and author of Final Exam, Pauline Chen puts her practice to print in her popular New York Times blog examining the relationship between doctor and patient. Chen's moving lectures, much like her book, convey a larger medical message by weaving together descriptive stories of her patients. Read Full BiographyBooks by Pauline Chen:
Final Exam
"The real power of her book lies in her stories. Balanced and perfect, each one seeks out the reader's heart like a guided missile, and explodes." -The New York Times
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Doctor and Patient: Lost in Translation
The relationship between patient and healer has been the bedrock of healing since time immemorial. But in recent times and amidst staggering scientific advances, there’s been a growing rift in that once sturdy foundation, a widening fissure often caused by differences in how patients and the medical doctors who care for them speak to one another. How has language affected the care given and received? How did such a rift develop? And what might we all do to prevent the best intentions and greatest ideals from getting lost in translation?
Self and Non-Self: One Transplant Surgeons' Reflections on How We Learn
Our Best Selves: A Surgeon's Reflections on Compassionate Leadership
If a Story is in You, It Has Got to Come Out: The Surgeon as a Writer
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