KALANITHI PAUL

ΟΤΑΝ Η ΑΝΑΣΑ ΓΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΑΕΡΑΣ
Σε ηλικία τριάντα έξι χρόνων, στην ακμή της καριέρας του ως νευροχειρουργού, ο Πολ Καλανίθι διαγνώστηκε με καρκίνο του πνεύμονα στο τέταρτο στάδιο. Τη μια μέρα ήταν ένας γιατρός που φρόντιζε τους ετοιμοθάνατους και την άλλη ένας ασθενής που έπρεπε να αγωνιστεί για τη ζωή του. Κι έτσι, ξαφνικά, το μέλλον που εκείνος και η γυναίκα του είχαν ονειρευτεί σβήστηκε για πάντα. Το Όταν η ανάσα γίνεται αέρας είναι το χρονικό της μεταμόρφωσης του Πολ Καλανίθι από έναν αφελή φοιτητή της ιατρικής που, όπως έγραφε, "ήθελε με πάθος να δώσει απάντηση, δεδ...
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(P/B) WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
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 na?ve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous ...
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(H/B) WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
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 na?ve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous ...
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