· When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. Paul Kalanithi and his future wife, Lucy Goddard, celebrated on Match Day in with faculty member Stephen Huot. After his diagnosis, Paul and Lucy Kalanithi decided that they would have a child. Their daughter, Cady, was eight months old when Paul died in March Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. Read Full Overview. Related collections and offers. Product Details. About the bltadwin.ru Names: Kalanithi, Paul, author. Title: When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. Description: New York: Random House, Identifiers: LCCN | ISBN (hardback) | ISBN (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Kalanithi, Paul—Health. | Lungs—Cancer—Patients—United States—bltadwin.ru Size: KB.
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi. "Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes. When Breath Becomes Air Summary. In a hospital room at the Stanford Medical Center, Paul Kalanithi flips through his CT scan images, which show that his lungs are filled with tumors. His wife Lucy is by his side. Paul is a neurosurgical resident in his last year of training at Stanford. He had earned the respect of his professors and had won. When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese (Foreword) When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was published on Janu.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new. When Breath Becomes Air is first and foremost an account of Paul’s life as well as his exploration of what makes a virtuous and meaningful life in the face of death. Paul grows up the son of a doctor in Kingman, Arizona, before studying English and Biology at Stanford, then attending the Yale School of Medicine. When Breath Becomes Air Summary. Next. Prologue. In a hospital room at the Stanford Medical Center, Paul Kalanithi flips through his CT scan images, which show that his lungs are filled with tumors. His wife Lucy is by his side. Paul is a neurosurgical resident in his last year of training at Stanford.
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