Description
“When Breath Becomes Air” is a memoir by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, chronicling his life and his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. The book explores his transformation from a medical student pondering the meaning of life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity—the brain—and finally into a patient and a new father confronting his own mortality.
