At the age of thirty-six\, on the verge of completing a decade&rsquo\;s worth of training as a neurosurgeon\, Paul K alanithi 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&rsquo\;s transformation from a na ï\;ve medical student &ldquo\;possessed\,&rdquo\; as he wrote\, &ldquo \;by the question of what\, given that all organisms die\, makes a virtuou s and meaningful life&rdquo\; into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in t he brain\, the most critical place for human identity\, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
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