When Breath Becomes Air

 Book by Paul Kalanithi.


This was a moving and well written memoir addressing the sacred calling of a doctor and the challenges of facing a terminal disease. This should be required reading for med school students, providing a humanizing counterbalance to the dehumanizing effects of cadaver dissection, long hours, and burdensome caseloads. Nothing makes you empathize with patients more than becoming one yourself, or at least putting yourself in their shoes. As for the philosophizing about life and death, the author is wise beyond his years. Relationships are what really matter and are worth spending time on.

Note: there is no objectionable content other than one patient who used the F word several times.

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