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2025-02-24
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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...
评分每个人都曾思考过生存的意义,或多或少,角度也不尽相同。可我们都时常感到人生苦短无常,同时又感到过程沉闷苦痛,好像是奈保尔说过的吧:人们更害怕无聊。 本书的作者保罗•卡拉尼什是个比寻常人更惧怕“无聊”的人,他从小便善于思考又深具才华,生在中产阶级家庭,有一位...
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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.
从english literature到medicine,从doctor到patient。 除了他直面死亡的勇气和integrity,更加打动我的是他一路以来在如此高强度和numbing的neurosurgery practice下坚持着对morality和science之间关系偏执般的求索,以及他对病人表现出来的enormous empathy and respect。
评分看大家都说喜欢后半部分,但是作为医学控的我,前半部分对医学的阐释简直是太精彩。这本书难能可贵的正在于它的不完整,在于字句之间的沉默,在于那些他想说却没有能力、没有时间再说的话。人生就是这样,走过一遍就没有时间再回头了,记下当下是多么珍贵的事情。RIP Paul.
评分I knew I would cry, just didn't foresee that I can't really stop crying when I tried to proceed on Lucy's part of the book. The "incompletion" of the book reveals the utter truth of the helplessness of a man in front of a fatal disease, and that's what makes it perfect.
评分作者是三十六岁斯坦福大学医院神经外科的住院总,在培训的最后一年被诊断为肺癌晚期。这是他在去年去世之前完成的自传,里面涉及了很多命题:生命的意义,死亡,医学,文学,医生与病人,爱与希望,等等等等。文字诚挚感人,又充满了智慧与爱,强烈推荐!
评分"Paul confronted death-examined it, wrestled it, accepted it-as a physician and a patient." 死亡来临的时候,他说I'm ready。 看到后面哽咽了好几次。
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