Pauline Chen


Pauline W. Chen, MD (born 1964),[1] is a surgeon, author, and New York Times columnist. She is known for her 2007 book Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality[2] as well as her online column Doctor and Patient. Her parents are immigrants from Taiwan.[3]

Education and training

Chen, a Taiwanese American, graduated from The Loomis Chaffee School, attended Harvard University and went to medical school at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She completed her surgical residency at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute, and UCLA.

She stayed on as faculty at UCLA, in liver transplant and cancer surgery. In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year.[4][5]

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Notes and references

  1. ^ "Listing for Final Exam". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-01-01. 
  2. ^ "Final Exam by Pauline Chen - Book - eBook". Random House. Retrieved 2012-09-12. 
  3. ^ Grimes, William (2007-01-10). "Doctor Confronts the Human Drama's Inevitable Finale". The New York Times. 
  4. ^ "Pauline W. Chen Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks". Random House. Retrieved 2012-09-12. 
  5. ^ Mehegan, David. "The doctor and death." 'Boston Globe' 27 Mar 2007.
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