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When Breath Becomes Air

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Call no.
: 616.994240092 KAL
Author
: PAUL KALANITHI
Contributor
: Nurjannah Binti Tuwah
Summary
When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir that Kalanithi have wrote that tells his journey of life from being no one to a neurosurgeon until he was diagnosed with stage IV terminal lung cancer. Paul Kalanithi was a very talented writer who had a deep passion of literature as well as medicine. Kalanithi wrote this book while he was diagnose with lung cancer. Being as a doctor, a neurosurgeon especially, he keep a specific purposes of trying to come as close to mortality as possible and also finding what makes life so meaningful. He use his terminal illness on trying to come as close as answering his purposes from both perspective from patient who dying from an illness to the doctor that help guide patient through illnesses. with this illness, he have a lot of questions on his mind and one of them is " What make life worth living in the face of death?". in his dying state he wrote this book bringing an unforgettable, life experience on the challenge of facing death relationship between patient and doctor, from an extremely talented writer who becomes both.