Kalanithi, Paul, <br/><br/>
When breath becomes air / 
Paul Kalanithi; foreword by Abraham Verghese. 
 - xix, 228 pages ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016. 
<br/><br/> At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.<br/><br/>When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father.<br/><br/>Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784701994 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB6F2230  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>018094324  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kalanithi, Paul--Career in medicine.<br/>Kalanithi, Paul--Health.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nervous system--Surgery.<br/>Lungs--Cancer--Patients--United States.<br/>Physician and patient.