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When Breath Becomes Air
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When the Surgeon Becomes the Patient
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About the book
When Breath Becomes Air is a book by Paul Kalanithi, published in 2016. This Waffle podcast explores the book across 2 episodes.
How does becoming a cancer patient challenge Kalanithi’s understanding of medical certainty and identity, and how does he choose between surgery, writing, and parenthood without knowing how much time remains? How do Kalanithi and his family distinguish prolonging life from preserving meaningful time, and what do fatherhood, writing, and Lucy’s grief reveal about what endures after death?
These episodes are AI-generated adaptations grounded in the book. Listen to the first episode here and continue the series in the Waffle app.
About the author
Paul Kalanithi
Author of When Breath Becomes Air.
