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Paul Kalanithi

Born

in Westchester, New York, The United States

April 01, 1977

Died

March 09, 2015

Genre

Nonfiction, Memoir

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Paul Kalanithi, M.D., was a neurosurgeon and writer. Paul grew up in Kingman, Arizona, before attending Stanford University, from which he graduated in 2000 with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Human Biology. He earned an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school. In 2007, Paul graduated cum-laude from the Yale School of Medicine, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He returned to Stanford for residency training in Neurological Surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he authored over twenty scientific publications and received the ...more

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	When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.41 avg rating — 810,047 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland, Paul Kalanithi (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 9,318 ratings — published 1994 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Death Becomes Life, When Breath Becomes Air, The Prison Doctor, Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor, In Stitches 5 Books Collection Set 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Going to Hurt / The Prison Doctor / Where Does it Hurt / When Breath Becomes Air by Adam Kay (Goodreads Author), Amanda Brown, Paul Kalanithi 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolutionary theory and the emergence of moral nature.: An article from: Journal of Psychology and Theology by William Hurlbut, Paul Kalanithi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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This poll is for the 'first' quarterly Non-fiction selection in our BT group. We had an outstanding response in nominations, with even more members holding off for the next quarter. I can only hope to see a book discussion that is half as lively.

Should we have a tie, there will be a very short 3 day additional poll to select one winner this quarter. However, if this non-fiction selection stays this popular - there could be multiple winners in the future. Time and thread participation will tell...

Please vote for your choice below...

Thanks and Happy Reading...

Educated

by Tara Westover

15 votes, 21.4%

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

by Maxwell King

13 votes, 18.6%

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

8 votes, 11.4%

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

4 votes, 5.7%

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

by John Kelly

4 votes, 5.7%

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

by Drema Hall Berkheimer

3 votes, 4.3%

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire

by David Cowan

3 votes, 4.3%

My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

by Dick Van Dyke

3 votes, 4.3%

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

by Masaji Ishikawa

3 votes, 4.3%

A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild

by Jennifer Bove

3 votes, 4.3%

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

by Susan Freinkel

2 votes, 2.9%

Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks

by Steven Davis

2 votes, 2.9%

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

2 votes, 2.9%

Eggshell Skull: A memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back

by Bri Lee

1 vote, 1.4%

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

by Martin Dugard

1 vote, 1.4%

Rick Mercer Final Report

by Rick Mercer

1 vote, 1.4%

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

1 vote, 1.4%

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

1 vote, 1.4%

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

by Catherine Kerrison

0 votes, 0.0%

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

by Conor Grennan

0 votes, 0.0%

70 total votes

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