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Paul Kalanithi
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano De Mexico
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"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?...
3) Dang hu xi hua wei kong qi: yi wei tian cai shen jing wai ke yi shi zui hou de sheng ming dong cha
Author
Series
Ren sheng gu wen volume 238
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo "Ė"
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
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.
