‘Exam’ makes the grade
Amid the “filleting” and “sawing” apart of arms, legs and pelvises going on all over during her first year of medical school, Pauline Chen — author of the memoir “Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality” and a former Yale-New Haven Hospital resident — begins to understand that she must “learn to separate [her] emotional self from [her] scientific self” if she is ever to “overcome death.” But it is also while dissecting a cadaver that Chen realizes the futility of such a project: No matter how hard she tries, she cannot distance herself completely.
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