I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
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When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.
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philosophy, Neurosurgeons, Cancer, Lungs, Husband and wife, Patients, Personal Memoirs, Health, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Death & Dying, Biographies, MEDICAL, Lung Neoplasms, Lung cancer patients, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, Husbands, Biografia, Pulmones, Cónyuges, Cirujanos, Cáncer, Pacientes, Biografía, Lungs, cancer, Cancer, patients, biography, Terminally ill, biography, Surgeons, biography, Physician and patient, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, MEDICAL / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-01-31, New York Times bestseller, Terminally ill, Kalanithi, paul, Healthkalanithi, paul, Attitude to death, Lung neoplasms, Lungs--cancer--patients, Lungs--cancer--patients--united states--biography, Neurosurgeons--biography, Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs, Medical / general, Social science / death & dying, Rc280.l8 k35 2016, 2016 d-937, Wz 100, Wz 100 k14w 2016, 616.99/424, Bio026000 med000000 soc036000People
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When Breath Becomes Air
2016, Random House
Hardcover
in English
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081298840X 9780812988406
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- When Breath Becomes Air - Wikipedia
- Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death - The New York Times
- This book left me in tears | Bill Gates
- Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. - The Washington Post
- When Breath Becomes Air review: A neurosurgeon’s story of terminal illness - The Irish Times
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