Paul Kalanithi, M.D., was a neurosurgeon and writer. Paul grew up in Kingman, Arizona, before attending Stanford University, from which he graduated in 2000 with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Human Biology. He earned an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school. In 2007, Paul graduated cum-laude from the Yale School of Medicine, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He returned to Stanford for residency training in Neurological Surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he authored over twenty scientific publications and received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research.
Paul’s reflections on doctoring and illness – he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2013, though he never smoked – have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Paris Review Daily, in addition to interviews in academic settings and media outlets such as MSNBC. Paul completed neurosurgery residency in 2014. Paul died in March, 2015, while working on When Breath Becomes Air, an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.. He is survived by his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady.
发表于2025-01-22
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《当呼吸化为空气》是新年读的第一本书,对生命和死亡的思考。作者保罗·卡拉尼什是神经科医生,在35岁的时候达到事业顶峰,美好前程正在他眼前展开,可是病魔无情地找上了他。他得了肺癌,而且是晚期。 保罗是医学博士,也是文学硕士,他一直相信文学的力量,所以自从得病后...
评分今年看了两本类似的书。《此生未完成》和《当呼吸化为空气》。 从两位作者的履历来看,上交+复旦+奥斯陆,斯坦福+剑桥+耶鲁;从人生上看,他们培养了那么多年自己,还没有伸出手去完成期待的,就走到了生命的尽头。 读《此生未完成》,曾对一个段落印象极深—— “我三年半同时...
评分 评分Had i been in his shoes, i would have been shattered wholely to my core and uncertain what else to do,especially given the condition where life's culmination was about to come. I sincerely appreciate the angle from his ,which showed an image of what my life...
评分医学、法律、商业、工程,这些都是崇高的追求,是维持生活的必要。但诗歌、美好、浪漫、爱情,这些才是我们生活的意义所在。 Medicine, law, business, engineering, there are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are w...
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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 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.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
感触太多太多了。 尤其是就在医生的身边。唉。他有深深的不甘心 但是他也准备好了。
评分What's the meaning of life? What is the meaning of job? Am I doing meaningful things with my life? Paul gave his answers to these questions through his dedication to thinking, reading and caring for the patient. What about the rest of us?
评分都说他文笔好,可我觉得最后他妻子epilogue的部分,文笔完胜他啊!更喜欢Being Mortal。
评分第一次听有声书,不太习惯朗读者的拿腔拿调,让文字失去了想象空间。这本书的内容和视角都比较个人化,很感人但内容略微单薄,文笔也有点生硬,也许是时间所迫。敬佩作者的勤奋专注,这是面对死亡能做出最有力的反击。
评分最近身边好几个朋友在读这本书;跟风在Audible下了一本。
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