Paul Kalanithi
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016.
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- Bronxville
- Educated at
- Stanford UniversityDarwin CollegeYale School of MedicineKingman High School
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1977
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