ĭetermined to finish the last months of his residency, he ignores whatever symptoms have not subsided. However, when X-ray results in a routine medical check-up return normal, his primary care physician and he attribute the symptoms to aging and work overload. Kalanithi worries that cancer might have caused his symptoms and his decline of health – unlikely for people in their thirties. Rapid weight loss, and severe back and chest pains begin to raise concern for him and his wife, Lucy Kalanithi. In his last year of neurosurgical residency at Stanford University, Kalanithi experiences negative changes in his health. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi.
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