Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

عندما تتحول الأنفاس إلى هواء: اجعل لحياتك معنى قبل فوات الأوان by Paul Kalanithi

41 reviews

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

I cannot stress this enough, if you’re reading/listening to this book be fully prepared to cry. A friend recommended I not listen to this audiobook while driving because I would need to pull over and cry. I heeded that advice and I listened at home—alone—and I openly wept. 

Paul’s words were very clinical at times but never cold or without emotion. This was his life’s story about his education, career, and personal life but most importantly it’s about how he continued to live even though he knew he was dying. 

Lucy’s epilogue absolutely wrecked me. 

Paul: ”I’m ready.” 

Lucy: “I climbed into the last bed we’d share.”

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infertility and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

emgovan's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

balfies's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

Immensely powerful, visceral posthumous memoir by a neuroscientist-neurosurgeon about his shifting philosophies around life and death in the face of his work and his cancer diagnosis. This was truly compelling to read, I finished it in one sitting. He has a very distinct, intelligent voice. Feel like this is one to return to at big moments of hardship and grief in life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

k04j1's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

hann_readsbooks's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

candaceallison's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

ceedy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death

flamingtashhh's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.0

I thought this was way overhyped. Summary: guy tries to get as close to death as possible, achieves this goal. Dies. 

In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.

And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself. 

I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

booksthatburn's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Death of parent

evelynbrady's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail