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millie_eevee's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, and Grief
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Blood, Suicide, and Vomit
thefemale_nickmiller's review
3.75
Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
4.0
detailing his time in med school, the subsequent residency, and his diagnosis and treatment, kalanithi weaves the tale of a man in the unwanted yet unique position of being both a doctor and a patient, providing a rare POV of being on both sides of medical care. the memoir is seeped w/ an undercurrent of calm and mulling, all held tgt by kalanithi's poignant writing. im v glad that he's written and left this book as part of his legacy.
Graphic: Medical content, Death, Terminal illness, and Cancer
Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, and Blood
Minor: Suicide and Child death
mdwsn27's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Dementia, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Vomit, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
caro6408's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Cancer
Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Car accident
Minor: Pregnancy
parasolcrafter's review
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Suicide
sabrinas's review
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Cancer, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Infertility, Excrement, Addiction, Suicide, Dementia, Car accident, and Blood
agnesg's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical content, and Death
Moderate: Pregnancy and Blood
flamingtashhh's review
2.0
In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.
And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself.
I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read.
Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Chronic illness, Death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Cancer
sassyshark's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy and Gore