My Last Day as a Surgeon | The New Yorker

Murali Thondebhavi

Jul 8, 2018

1 min read

An excerpt from a book about a surgeon who succumbed to cancer.

Paul Kalanithi. The struggles, ambitions and the essence of life – breath. All in his book ‘When breath becomes air’. Well written and touching.

Recent Posts

I recently travelled on a family holiday followed by an academic meeting. My taste buds took an overdose and were craving for simple...

All living beings have a sensory bubble. Humans are encroaching and destroying the precious sensory environment of other creatures. In...

I have been always attracted to science fiction since school days. Arthur C Clarke and his epic space voyage stories were my favourites....