Pauline W. Chen

Biography

Pauline W. Chen was educated at Harvard University and Northwestern University Medical School and completed her general surgery training at Yale University. Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous awards including the UCLA Physician of the Year Award in 1999 and the George Longstreth Humanness Award at Yale for “most exemplifying empathy, kindness, and care in an age of advancing technology.” Her book, Final Exams: A Young Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality, was published by Knopf in January 2007. Her website is at www.paulinechen.com.

http://www.paulinechen.com/

See Work

Spring 2007

The Gross-Out Factor

By Pauline W. Chen
Winter 2007

Morbidity and Mortality: A Surgeon Under Exam

By Pauline W. Chen
ESSAYS / Fall 2005

Dead Enough?: The Paradox of Brain Death

By Pauline W. Chen

 am a transplant and cancer surgeon and in my office, stashed among folders containing notes and old operative reports from my residency, two fellowships, and practice, is a 9 × 12 manila envelope that bulges with small white stickers. Each...