Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

136 reviews

peri_winkle's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

sydapel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

An odd choice of listen while I was hiking in the Glaciers to be sure, but this has been on my TBR for years and I wanted to check it off. Obviously, this writing and story comes from a deeply tragic place, but I think the way the author chooses to tell it is heartening and hopeful, if a little simplistic. I liked his thoughts about the best and most human ways of patient care the most, and of course the afterward broke my heart in two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content and Grief

_lees's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

thesapphire's review against another edition

challenging inspiring sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit

deestreet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug use, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

marencollins's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Death

Minor: Grief

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

captainrenjamin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical trauma

hannah_the_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Blood

jess_xen's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Deeply moving and heartbreakingly hopeful. 

This is a really special book. Thank you, Paul. 

"You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly thriving."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Medical content