I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
An edition of When Breath Becomes Air
(2016)
El buen doctor
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by Paul Kalanithi
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Paul Kalanithi, joven y prometedor neurocirujano, recibió a los 35 años un devastador diagnóstico de cáncer de pulmón. Entonces decidió escribir este libro, en el que cuenta, por un lado, qué lo llevó a dejar sus estudios literarios para dedicarse a la medicina (y en particular a la investigación sobre el cerebro humano), y cómo tuvo que llegar a un acuerdo consigo mismo para dar cierre a su vida y afrontar la muerte con valentía. A la vez un recordatorio sobre la fragilidad de nuestra existencia y un alegato por la vida valiente y vigorosa, este libro está hecho para inspirar y conmover por igual.
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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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