When Breath Becomes Air - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Paul Kalanithi
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Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer at the age of thirty-six, just nearing his ten-year mark as a neurosurgeon in training. At one moment, he was a doctor treating patients and the next, he was a patient needing doctors. His diagnosis changed everything, including the future that he and his wife, Lucy, had envisioned.
When Breath Becomes Air is Kalanithi's account of his transition from being a young medical student fixated on answering the profound question about what makes one's life meaningful in spite of the certainty of death, to a trained neurosurgeon in charge of one's source of identity—the human brain, and ultimately to a man welcomed to fatherhood as well as to the realization of his mortality.
What makes life worthwhile when death is but an inevitability? How will you move forward when the future you have imagined crumbles into an impasse? Why bring new life into the world when your own is slipping right between your fingers? These are only some of the thought-provoking questions Kalanithi presents in this masterfully written memoir.
Paul Kalanithi passed away on March 9, 2015. Though unfinished, When Breath Becomes Air continues to serve as a guide to those who have lost their way. It is the reflection of a brave and dignified man—once a doctor, then a patient—who continued to affirm life even in the face of death.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and a writer of Indian-American descent. In the span of his professional career, he had written over half a dozen of science journals and scholarly articles about neurosurgery. During his final days, he has authored numerous essays which were made available in several media channels. When Breath Becomes Air is Paul's bestselling autobiography that details his struggle against stage IV metastatic lung cancer. Paul died on March of 2015, aged thirty-seven, leaving his wife and one daughter behind.
BOOK OVERVIEW
When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir written by Paul Kalanithi recounting his personal transformation from an inexperienced medical student, to a trained neurosurgeon, and ultimately to man welcomed both to fatherhood and to the realization of one's transience.
Paul has spent most of his young life seeking answers about life's meaning. Upon his diagnosis, he came face to face with his fears—becoming the patient, not the doctor. Paul sought a new identity—a sense of self that is strong enough to plan a future even when his is certain, to bring new life into the world even when his own drained day by day.
When Breath Becomes Air is the truly life-changing account of a man—a doctor—struggling to come to terms with his own mortality as a patient. Paul Kalanithi shows readers the path he had taken toward finding his own self, realizing the definition of being an effective doctor, and acknowledging his capacity as a doctor to aid his patients in their own journeys to find meaning in their lives.
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