His account of life as a student surgeon is equally rich: from the macabre humour of dissection classes to the perplexing neurological conditions he encounters. A child of immigrants, Kalanithi is an exemplar of the modern American dream: by any measure, his life before diagnosis is a charmed one - not without challenge, but full of privilege and fulfilment. In it he reflects on his personal history and experience, and on the profession to which he considered himself called. When Breath Becomes Air is the memoir Kalanithi had hoped to write in old age.
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