This is a wonderful, heartbreaking yet uplifting memoir that should be required reading for all medical students and junior doctors. (And older doctors and retired doctors and nurses and allied health practitioners and everyone else). I read this book in one sitting, completely enmeshed in Kalanithi's narrative voice from the very first page. This memoir [...]
Paul Kalanithi, M.D., author of When Breath Becomes Air, was a neurosurgeon and writer. He graduated from Stanford with a B.A. and M.A. in English literature and a B.A. in human biology. He earned an M.Phil in the history and philosophy of science and medicine from Cambridge and graduated cum laude from the Yale School [...]
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