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English
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"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the...
Author
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Publisher
Vergara/Ediciones B México
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Provides answers to the twenty most-commonly asked questions about lung cancer, including diagnosis, treatments, and getting on with life.
"20 respuestas para cáncer de pulmón explica de manera sencilla y accesible tanto los conceptos como los procesos médicos a los que se enfrenta una persona que padece cáncer pulmonar"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano De Mexico
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
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