Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

127 reviews

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: Grief and Death

Minor: Medical content

katdirks's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

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: Death, Medical content, and Cancer

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

kira20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore and Suicide

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide

cherie17's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

333amreen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

VERY INSIGHTFUL!!! not just into a doctor's life and their relationship with their patients & their confrontation with life and death everyday! But also, into HIS life, Paul's beautiful life & his philosophies that were astounding. Overall, an emotional ride, especially the latter part!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Medical content, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

garyosu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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