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	When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
	Price : Rs 599.00
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You are a young neurosurgeon. You have completed 11 years of training. You are devoted to your work and on the brink of a wonderful career.Then you are diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day you are a doctor making a living treating the dying, the next a patient dying, struggling to live.What makes a virtuous and meaningful life? Paul Kalanithi believed that the answer lay in medicine`s most demanding specialization, neurosurgery. Here are patients at their life`s most critical moment. Here he worked in the most critical place for human identity, the brain. What is it like to do that every day; and what happens when life is catastrophically interrupted?When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable reflection on the practice of medicine and the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.With a foreword by Dr Abraham Verghese and an epilogue by the author`s wife, Lucy.

ISBN - 9781847923677

Pages : 256