The Best American Medical Writing by Pauline W Chen Md

The Best American Medical Writing by Pauline W Chen Md

The Best American Medical Writing 2009 highlights the year's most poignant work from the genre's finest authors-- complete with an introduction by best-selling author and renowned transplant surgeon Pauline W. Chen. The Best American Medical Writing 2009 celebrates incisive writing on the subject of medicine and its practice. This inaugural volume features writings by the likes of preeminent writers such as Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and is culled from diverse sources such as The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, Salon, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Discover, and many more.

The Best American Medical Writing 2009 highlights the year's most poignant work from the genre's finest authors-- complete with an introduction by best-selling author and renowned transplant surgeon Pauline W. Chen. The Best American Medical Writing 2009 celebrates incisive writing on the subject of medicine and its practice. This inaugural volume features writings by the likes of preeminent writers such as Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and is culled from diverse sources such as The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, Salon, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Discover, and many more.

Pauline W. Chen attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently a member of the faculty. In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year. Dr. Chen's first nationally published piece, Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death, appeared in the fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award. She is also the 2005 cowinner of the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing. She lives near Boston with her husband and children.

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ISBN 13	9781607144649
ISBN 10	1607144646
Title	The Best American Medical Writing
Author	Pauline W Chen Md
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kaplan AEC Education
Year published	2009-10-06
Number of pages	336
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