Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

32 reviews

puifaii's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Physical abuse, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

tellingmyselfastory's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down. It's hopefully heartbreaking. One of the themes that kept coming up that I resonated with is the way the healthcare system dulls the empathy of it's professionals. How it's easier to disconnect into the statistics and turn the patient into another number. I found his philosophy on medicine fascinating. 

Our culture doesn't like to discuss death but this does in such a thoughtful way. It's real and honest.  But it's also about living. And how living and dying are connected. Living with the knowledge you are dying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infertility and Pregnancy

Discussion of IVF and family planning

333amreen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

VERY INSIGHTFUL!!! not just into a doctor's life and their relationship with their patients & their confrontation with life and death everyday! But also, into HIS life, Paul's beautiful life & his philosophies that were astounding. Overall, an emotional ride, especially the latter part!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

bookish_bry's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow... this book really got to me. It's written very well and punches you in the gut. Paul's self-reflection at the end of his life hits hard. It was a hard book to get through, but it was very, very good. Don't read if you are not in the right emotional state. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy

Paul is a doctor and described his medical training somewhat explicitly when talking about dissecting cadavers.

millie_eevee's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide, Blood, and Vomit

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

meditative and powerful, when breath becomes air journeys kalanithi's confrontation with his own close mortality, bringing to ironic physical fruition his lifelong reflection on life and death. 

detailing his time in med school, the subsequent residency, and his diagnosis and treatment, kalanithi weaves the tale of a man in the unwanted yet unique position of being both a doctor and a patient, providing a rare POV of being on both sides of medical care. the memoir is seeped w/ an undercurrent of calm and mulling, all held tgt by kalanithi's poignant writing. im v glad that he's written and left this book as part of his legacy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death and Suicide

madamelacy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

wordsaremybigobsession's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy