TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalanithi, Paul 
AU  - Verghese, Abraham
TI  - When breath becomes air
SN  - 9781847923677
U1  - 616.99424 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Random House, 
KW  - Kalanithi, Paul -- Health. y.
KW  - Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biograph
KW  - Neurosurgeons -- Biography
N2  - 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"--Publisher's website
ER  -