Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

41 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cursing

saphirabloom's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicide

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood and Medical trauma

ntvenessa's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Of course you begin knowing the end. Dr Paul Kalanithi dies. This account, both unfinished and finished (depending on the sense you mean) is a deeply introspective reflection on life, meaning and death from someone who has been acutely attuned. The brief memoir focuses on Kalanithi's dual relationship with life and death as a doctor and as a patient, and underlying that, we see our own deepest existential fears reflected back in his humanity. Freshly diagnosed, it is Kalanithi's instinct to ensure the futures of those around him, though he himself is unsure of his present. Most of us are not dying of severe illness, but all of us will wonder what our lives can mean, what it should mean. Kalanithi grapples with increasing urgency, his own truth about what makes life meaningful, and it is this frenetic energy that is so calmly tempered by clarity and authority that is striking. No doubt the dying are suffering, but Kalanithi doesn't dwell so long. In a way, the brevity of the book brings to the fore what Kalanithi most wanted to say, and largely these were philosophical things. I think the foreword by Dr Abraham Verghese should be skipped and unread entirely, and I think the epilogue written by his wife, Dr Lucy Kalanithi was illuminating. After finishing Paul Kalanithi's meditative words, his clarity is softened by the bookend that is his wife's epilogue. We can only guess of Paul Kalanithi's contributions to neuroscience had he lived, but we already know of the contributions he has made. It is possible to live while dying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

novombre's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

enbybooklove's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The book is excellent and should be required reading for every human. The author himself came across as a little arrogant and I wish his workaholism had been acknowledged, but it is still an entirely necessary book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore and Medical trauma

Minor: Infertility and Pregnancy

just_me_hunter's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief

lottevanelst's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Beautiful, painful but interesting. This memoir taught me other ways to review life. It somewhat made me think of it in a calmer perspective. Contains a lot of medical words which sometimes made it hard to read. But I still recommend it.

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Content Warnings

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

morganperks's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Suicide

mscalls's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide and Car accident