A review by murderousscottishgremlin
When Breath Becomes Air by Abraham Verghese, Paul Kalanithi

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book will stay with me for a long time. Such poignant insights into first life as a surgeon, and later living with a terminal illness, all underpinned by questions of existentialism. The parallels drawn between medicine/neurosurgery and the philosophical/literary idea of The Sublime really stuck with me. I think I feel a similar calling towards medicine, in addition to my inclinations towards human biology and literature.
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