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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - Book Review

1,026 views · Published 28 November 2018 · 7:53 · Indexed 27 September 2026

Channel: Loy Machedo · 2018 · Entertainment

Detailed Book Review
https://www.loymachedo.com/paul-kalanithi/

Let’s start with the praise given to this book:
“Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful” - Atul Gawande
“Powerful & Moving” - Daily Express
“Less a memoir than a reflection on life and purpose….A vital book” - The Economist
“Moving, humble and impossible to ignore” - Sunday Times

And then when you have a report that states even Bill Gates read it and gave it an amazing review - well, I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t have a lot of doubts if you should or shouldn’t purchase this book.

And well - that is why I did purchase this book.

So now what is this book all about?

The Content
When Breath Becomes Air is the story of Paul Kalanithi, a doctor on the verge of finishing his neurosurgeon training, who is diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.

The book can be divided into 3 parts.

Part 1 is a biography of Paul Kalanithi starting when he was a teenager trying to discover his calling and concluding with his death.

Part 2 is Paul Kalanithi's reflections on being a doctor and the doctor-patient relationship.

Part 3 is Paul Kalanithi philosophical quest for an understanding of what makes life meaningful.

Throughout the book,
As an ardent reader of books, I quickly understood that the author was under exceptional pressure - both against time and his own mortality to complete this book as quickly as possible. And when you realize that the author was diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer and was getting weaker and weaker every single day, you appreciate the herculean effort the author had to put in to complete this task.

However, I would like to keep sympathy out of this review and look at it objectively. And that is where I have to be critical.

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