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100	1		_aKalanithi, Paul
245	1	0	_aWhen breath becomes air _c/ Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, 2016
300			_a228 pages _c; 20 cm
520	3		_aA 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 next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" 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.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aKalanithi, Paul _x-Health
650		4	_aLungs _x-Cancer _z-Patients _y-Biography
650		4	_aNeurosurgeons _v--Biography
650		4	_aHusband and wife
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