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Results for 'paul kalanithi'
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father.What makes life worth living in the face of death?
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Spare Parts
An Unexpected History of TransplantsA fascinating book
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death?
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Fragile Lives
A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating TableAn incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on.
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Admissions
A Life in Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain SurgeonNHS frontline - gripping memoir from the brain surgeon and No.1 bestselling author of DO NO HARM.'Superb' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Your Heart, My Hands
An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac SurgeonsAn encouraging and inspiring true story on how a boy from India overcame a difficult childhood and devastating hand injuries and became one of the most preeminent cardiac surgeons in U.S. history.
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Face to Face
True stories of life, death and transformation from my career as a facial surgeon'Face to Face is not just a brilliant introduction to one of the most exacting areas of modern medicine, it's a humbling glimpse of humans at their best.' Sunday TimesSo much of our identity and sense of self is vested in the face we see in the bathroom mirror every morning.
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The Butchering Art
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian MedicineGruesomely compelling ... A fascinating account
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on PerformanceExplores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.
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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceGiving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Fragile Lives
A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table‘Raw and moving… the writing is thrilling. Fragile Lives is a frank and absorbing memoir by a man who has done about as much good to his fellow human beings as it is possible to do in one lifetime.’ – The Times, Book of the Week ‘With his battle cry of “bugger protocol” and his renaming of medical directors as “the Stasi”, Westaby comes across as the bloke you’d want on your side in the fight to stay alive.’ Guardian Books of the Year ‘The stakes could not be higher in this bloody, muscular and adrenaline-charged memoir from a pioneering heart surgeon… at points it made my own heart race dangerously. ‘Surgeons are meant to be objective,’ Westaby tells himself, ‘not human’. What makes this book so fascinating, and so moving, is the terrible tension between these necessary qualities.’ – Sunday Times ‘A full-frontal and thrilling portrayal. Each story in this fascinating book brings a new nail-biting surgical adventure… A gifted surgeon, Westaby is also a natural writer… Fragile Lives succeeds on many levels: political battle cry, chronicle of bloody feats, history of modern cardiology, tribute to patients and paean to surgery.’ – Daily Telegraph ‘Westaby is everything you would hope from a maverick surgical genius: authoritative, engaged, passionate and opinionated. His book, annoyingly well written for someone who has penned only medical papers and handbooks, reads like a thriller, except with rather more corpses. You race to each chapter’s end to see if his certain-to-die patient survives.’ – The Times ‘The book is a cracking example of a thriving sub-genre of autobiography, the medical memoir. Anyone who enjoyed the 2014 bestseller Do No Harm by the brain surgeon Henry Marsh, a friend of Westaby’s, will relish Fragile Lives, too. Each story is gripping, written in a vivid, almost brutal way that matches the blood and gore of cardiac surgery.’ – Financial Times
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Bevor ich jetzt gehe
Ein bewegendes Memoir und eine inspirierende Antwort auf die Frage: Was macht ein Leben lebenswert?'Wer dieses Buch gelesen hat, wird es nie wieder vergessen.' The New York TimesMit gerade einmal 36 Jahren wird bei Paul Kalanithi, der kurz vor dem Abschluss seiner zehnjährigen Ausbildung zum Neurochirurgen steht, Lungenkrebs im fortgeschrittenen Stadium diagnostiziert. An einem Tag noch Arzt, der Sterbende behandelt, wird er am nächsten Tag zum Patienten, der um sein Leben kämpft. Seine berufliche Karriere, die gemeinsame Zukunft mit seiner Frau Lucy, alles löst sich in Luft auf. Doch Paul gibt nicht auf. Er beginnt zu schreiben: Was macht das eigene Leben lebenswert? Was tun, wenn die Lebensleiter keine weiteren Stufen bereithält? Was bedeutet es, ein Kind zu bekommen, wenn das eigene Leben zu Ende geht? Bewegend schildert der junge Arzt in diesem Vermächtnis an seine Tochter seine Gedanken über die ganz großen Fragen und seinen Abschied vom Leben. 'Bevor ich jetzt gehe' ist eine lebensbejahende Reflexion über die Auseinandersetzung mit unserer Sterblichkeit und über die Beziehung zwischen Arzt und Patient, von einem begnadeten Schriftsteller, der beides war. Eines der BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR, The Washington Post, Slate, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, BookPage
€ 14,00