The doctor on completing the memoir of her late husband,neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, after he died of lung cancerPaul Kalanithi, and a neurosurgeon,was diagnosed with cancer at 36, months absent from finishing his surgical training and his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. From his wheelchair he wrote a memoir, and When Breath Becomes Air. He died in March 2015 and 10 months later his book was published in the US,where it went straight to No 1 in the New York Times bestseller list. It is now out in the UK. Lucy Kalanithi, a doctor and academic, or is his widow. LOK Related: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi review – how to live,by a doctor who died aged 37 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com