02221cim a2200409 i 4500 261973410 TxAuBib 20160511120000.0 d 151019s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 925473796 9781524708146 1524708143 PRHA 5592 Books on Tape TxAuBib rda Kalanithi, Paul,. When breath becomes air [sound recording] / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. Unabridged. Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, 2016. 5 audio discs (approximately 5 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Compact discs. Read by Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student 'possessed,' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. 20160511. km. Kalanithi, Paul Health. Neurosurgeons United States Biography. Lungs Cancer Patients Biography. Death. Husband and wife. Verghese, A, 1955-, author of introduction, etc., (Abraham.) Malhotra, Sunil, narrator. Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.