Summary Of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air

The nonfiction book, When Breath Becomes Air, was written by a talented neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi, in which he tells his story of his diagnosis of lung cancer- just as he is reaching the apex of his career. Kalanithi was diagnosed with cancer during his eighth year of residency, even though he had previously had came to the conclusion himself that he had cancer. Although he believed his life was coming to an end, him and his family had grown closer than they had ever been before. As a matter of fact, he eventually was able to graduate presidency, the same day his daughter was born, and died happily around family in the same hospital is career and daughter had flourished. Kalanithi begins his book with a few days leading up to his diagnosis’. Immediately, Paul recounts, in the prologue, how he had tremendous back pain and had experience other cancer like symptoms but he had merely thought of them as effects of his large work load. …show more content…
Paul Kalanithi was a part of a family full of medical professionals and ironically it was a field he was not interested in as a child. His eighth year of residency Paul had been diagnosed, treated, then again later diagnosed again. He had first got rid of his cancerous tumors the same way he had approached his profession, tirelessly. Brave was the word that individuals had characterized him as, and brave he was to his very last breath. The same last breath he had taken in the hospital filled with countless memories-good and bad- surrounded by family and in the a hospital bed comfortably, while sharing it with his wife. Similar to the day he was diagnosed, Paul had left the world accepting his death. Unlike that day, he left it without