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title: When Breath Becomes Air tagline: Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer … description: When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation
from a medical student into a patient
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// Place an excerpt at the most top position // —————————————————————————– Paul Kalanithi at the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
The *NEW YORK TIMES* Number One Bestseller, the *SUNDAY TIMES* Bestseller: Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option: Unmissable.
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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. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.