{"id":2517,"date":"2017-03-22T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:55:53","slug":"breath-becomes-air-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/breath-becomes-air-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"When Breath Becomes Air a must read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/breath-becomes-air-must-read\/when-breath-becomes-air-paul-kalanithi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2520\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/breath-becomes-air-must-read\/when-breath-becomes-air-paul-kalanithi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/When-Breath-Becomes-Air-Paul-Kalanithi.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2o3kkkl\">When Breath Becomes Air<\/a> is a small book, but it&#8217;s powerful can be read in max 1 or 2 days as you will not be at peace till you complete the book. It is about a neurosurgeon Paul Kalanith, who at the peak of this career was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The transformation of a doctor to a patient is worth reading in itself.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t shed any tears at the end of it, but I remember sitting there physically shaking and feeling really numb and tingly. A book has never impacted me that way before. It is about despair\u00a0at one minute and full of hopes another.<\/p>\n<p>Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi\u2019s wife, Lucy is very emotional and touching. I&#8217;ve seen the havoc cancer causes out of nowhere in people&#8217;s lives. People very close to me. Your dreams and goals of not the one who gets cancer, but of everyone close to him changes forever.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend reading it by anyone who might have lost their loved ones, or facing a serious illness like cancer and also to all the doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Breath Becomes Air is a small book, but it&#8217;s powerful can be read in max 1 or 2 days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-books","tag-when-breath-becomes-air"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-EB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3663,"url":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel-about-creation-not-just-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":2517,"position":0},"title":"Book Review Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow \u2014 A Novel About Creation, Not Just Games","author":"saifuddin","date":"December 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is often described as a \u201cvideo game novel,\u201d but that framing undersells what the book truly achieves. 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