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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi: Book Summary by FlashBooks NOTE-THIS IS AN AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY: When Breath Becomes Air By Paul Kalanithi ABOUT: This autobiography is a beautiful tragedy. It is the story of Dr. Paul Kalanithi's short, outstanding life. Yet somehow, it transcends the format of a 'This Is My Life' book to become a profound story about life, death, and living with death. And then, it becomes a legacy of living life with meaning...
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Summary of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about Paul Kalanithi's experiences as a doctor and as a terminally ill patient. The book discusses Kalanithi's lifelong fascination with questions of human biology, mortality, and meaning. It then examines how these questions are intensified by the author's own confrontation with lung cancer, sickness, and death.
Kalanithi's father was a doctor from New York City; his mother was from...
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - Book Summary - Readtrepreneur.
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book, but an unofficial summary.)
What makes life worth living? Paul has always strove to understand the meaning of life - first through literature, then through medicine. This book When Breath Becomes Air tells us the true story of Paul Kalanithi, who always wondered about the meaning of life and death. Paul brings us through his journey...
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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Dr. Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air is an autobiographical account...
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Oceano
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[2016]
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Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
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"An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with 'death in the room, ' from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air. 'We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.' Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer--one small spot....
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An authentic, page-turning debut memoir. Perfect for fans of When Breath Becomes Air.
In 1990, Robert K. Brown was an ordinary college student studying abroad in England when a series of unexpected and extraordinary events would change the trajectory of his life forever. Choosing to ignore ominous early symptoms, he was still troubled enough to write in his journal "just for the record ... I am frightened because things are happening to me that I...
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Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom this book was written--from a condition that...
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"A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed...
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Discovering she had stage four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being frozen in a dissociated state and used the "narrative therapy" she used with her patients to navigate her own trauma.
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"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
18) The trauma cleaner: one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
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"Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. You've got to hear Sandra's incredible story. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need people. Audible's editors fell in love with Sandra because of her warmth, humour and grace, and we think...
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For Readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU as Recounted by an Intensive Care Doctor
Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work in hospitals through the eyes of the doctors and nurses who witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion in every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient...
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Steadfast love during life's darkest moments, the heartbreak of life and death decisions, and the discovery of forgiveness in unusual places. Heddie made impossible promises to her beloved fiancé just before he died: she promised to heal her heart and move on without him. But now's she's having second thoughts. Why should Heddie keep her promises when Hugh never kept his? Heddie gave up everything to help Hugh fight his disease, to cure him, and...