For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in
English literature, human biology, and history and philoso-phy of
science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities
before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received
the American Academy of Neu-rological Surgery's highest award for
research.
His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the
New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.
Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife,
Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory
reading for the living.
*Nigella Lawson*
Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.
*Atul Gawande, author of BEING MORTAL*
Powerful and poignant.
*The Sunday Times*
Extraordinary...Remarkable... luminous, revelatory memoir about
mortality and what makes being alive meaningful ... Lyrical,
intimate, insistent and profound. Kalanithi had the mind of the
polymath and the ear of a poet.
*Daily Telegraph*
A stark, fascinating, well-written and heroic memoir.
*The Times*
Exceptional.
*Evening Standard*
When I came to the end of the last flawless paragraph of When
Breath Becomes Air, all I could do was turn to the first page and
read the whole thing again. Searingly intelligent, beautifully
written, and beyond brave, I haven't been so marked by a book in
years.
*Gabriel Weston, author of DIRECT RED*
A meditation on what makes a life worth living.
*Guardian*
A powerful and compelling read.
*The Economist, Book of the Year*
Dr Kalanithi describes, clearly and simply, and entirely without
self-pity, his journey from innocent medical student to
professionally detached and all-powerful neurosurgeon to helpless
patient, dying from cancer. He learns lessons about the reality of
illness and the doctor-patient relationship that most doctors only
learn in old age but Paul Kalanithi died at the tragically early
age of 37.
Every doctor should read this book - written by a member of our own
tribe, it helps us understand and overcome the barriers we all
erect between ourselves and our patients as soon as we are out of
medical school
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