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When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.

Kalanithi, Paul, (author.). Kalanithi, Lucy, (writer of epilogue.). Verghese, Abraham, 1955- (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

Record details

  • ISBN: 081298840X
  • ISBN: 9780812988406
  • Physical Description: xix, 228 pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi.

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Subject: Kalanithi, Paul > Death.
Kalanithi, Paul > Health.
Husband and wife.
Lungs > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
Neurosurgeons > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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