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    Paul Kalanithi said his daughter, Cady, filled him with "a joy unknown to me in all my prior years." He passed away on March 9.
    Gregg Segal

    Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, MD, who wrote eloquently and movingly about facing mortality after being diagnosed with lung cancer, died of the disease March 9. He was 37.

    Kalanithi, who had recently completed his neurosurgery residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine and become a first-time father, was an instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery and fellow at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

    "We are all devastated by the tragedy of his sudden illness and untimely demise," said Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, professor and chair of neurosurgery. "Paul spent seven years with us. He's very much part of our neurosurgical family. It affects us like a death in a closely knit family."

    Kalanithi's essays, "How Long Have I Got Left?" for The New York Times and "Before I Go"

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    Photograph by Norbert von der Groeben

    In May of 2013, the Stanford University neurosurgical resident Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic lung cancer. He was thirty-six years old. In his two remaining years—he died in March of 2015—he continued his medical training, became the father to a baby girl, and wrote beautifully about his experience facing mortality as a doctor and a patient. In this excerpt from his posthumously published memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air,” which is out on January 12th, from Random House, Kalanithi writes about his last day practicing medicine.

    I hopped out of the CT scanner, seven months since I had returned to surgery. This would be my last scan before finishing residency, before becoming a father, before my future became real.

    “Wanna take a look, Doc?” the tech said.

    “Not right now,” I said. “I’ve got a lot of work to do today.”

    It was already 6 P.M. I had to go see patients, organize tomorrow’s O.R. schedule, review films,

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    When Breath Becomes Air

    Autobiographical book by Paul Kalanithi

    When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fictionautobiographical book written bygd American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It fryst vatten a memoir about his life and battling scen IV metastaticlung cancer. It was posthumously published bygd Random House on January 12, 2016.[1]

    In his gods year of neurosurgical residency at Stanford University, Kalanithi experiences negativ changes in his health. Rapid vikt loss and severe back and chest pains begin to raise concern for him and his wife, Lucy Kalanithi. He worries that cancer might have caused his symptoms and his decline of health – unlikely for people in their thirties. However, when the X-ray results in a routine medical check-up return normal, he and his primary care physician attribute the symptoms to aging and work overload.[2]

    Determined to finish the last months of his residency, he ignores whatever symptoms have not subsided. A few weeks later, the sy