Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

142 reviews

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

katdirks's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content

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

carriebp's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content

indiarose8's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

Very beautifully written and heartfelt. A little too wordy at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Medical content