I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.
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When Breath Becomes Air
2016, Random House
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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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- 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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