We highly recommend reading the original book for the full experience. Certainly, if one is confronted with life and death decisions day in and day out, some sort of awakening must follow. After we pronounced him dead, I left the room. It was a sight of the past, whereas I understood the realities of the future.

Doing otherwise felt like a bigger catastrophe than death. The time when a car accident was just a car accident was gone. Many of my classmates were selecting less-intense specialties, those with better hours, more money, and less stress. Everything changed after the news of a friend’s death reached me. I’d known Laurie in medical school. Shortform note: Many books about doctors try to understand the doctor-patient relationship. Kalanithi is part of a fraternity of amazing writer doctors, including Abraham Verghese (who wrote the foreword to Paul’s book), Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Atul Gawande.

But still, I never questioned the work or the value in it. Perhaps I should consult a neuroscientist to figure out whether these seemingly disparate talents are somehow linked in the brain. Paul Kalanithi believed doctors could impart wisdom about life. In 2007, Paul graduated cum-laude from the Yale School of Medicine, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.

Instead, I started to wonder if my role as gatekeeper was normalizing the scenario.  US$26.00, US$25.78 I had moved through patients’ pain, worries, and diagnoses like a worker on a factory line.

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I was turning into Tolstoy’s cliche of a doctor: mechanically treating disease without noticing the individual. I had all the information I needed as a doctor to understand Laurie’s death.

I had failed to recognize the significance of the situation and their lives.  US$18.62, Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14031444.Paul_Kalanithi

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