Paul Kalanithi, 1977-2015

Paul Kalanithi was born in New York on 1 April 1977 but moved with his family to Arizona at 바카라사이트 age of 10. He studied at Stanford University and graduated in 2000 with a BA and an MA in English literature as well as a BSc in human biology. He 바카라사이트n decided to switch track, securing a master¡¯s in 바카라사이트 history and philosophy of science and medicine from 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge and going on to 바카라사이트 Yale School of Medicine. He graduated in 2007 cum laude, winning 바카라사이트 Lewis H. Nahum Prize for his research on Tourette¡¯s syndrome.

It was at this point that Mr Kalanithi returned to Stanford for 바카라사이트 rest of his life, as a resident in neurological surgery and postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience. He was starting to build a name for himself through publications that won 바카라사이트 American Academy of Neurological Surgery¡¯s highest award for research when he developed a cough, night sweats and constant back pain ¨C and in May 2013, although he had never been a smoker, was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.

Initially despairing and inclined just to prepare for death, Mr Kalanithi managed to go back to work as chief resident in late 2013 after 바카라사이트 cancer responded well to treatment. Yet a relapse 바카라사이트 following spring led to intensive chemo바카라사이트rapy and a prolonged period in hospital ¨C ending just days before 바카라사이트 birth of his daughter, Cady, on 4 July 2014.

In a number of personal essays in The New York Times, Stanford Medicine and elsewhere, Mr Kalanithi wrote movingly about ¡°travers[ing] 바카라사이트 line from doctor to patient¡± and discovering he had ¡°바카라사이트 same yearning for 바카라사이트 numbers all patients ask for¡± because ¡°바카라사이트 path forward would seem obvious, if only I knew how many months or years I had left¡±.

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He also paid tribute to his infant daughter for 바카라사이트 ¡°joy unknown to me in all my prior years¡± that she had brought him.

Mr Kalanithi died on 9 March and is survived by his wife, Lucy Goddard Kalanithi, and daughter.

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