Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (1 thang 4 nam 1977 – 9 thang 3 nam 2015) la mot nha giai phau than kinh va nha van nguoi My goc An Đo. Cuon sach When Breath Becomes Air cua anh la mot cuon hoi ky ve cuoc đoi va cuoc chien đau voi benh ung thu phoi di can giai đoan IV cua anh. No đuoc xuat ban sau khi anh qua đoi boi Random House vao thang 1 nam 2016. Cuon sach đa lot vao danh sach nhung cuon sach phi hu cau ban chay nhat cua The New York Times trong nhieu tuan lien tiep. Tai Viet Nam, cuon sach nay đa đuoc Nha xuat ban Lao Đong dich va xuat ban vao thang 7 nam 2017 voi ten goi Khi hoi tho hoa thinh khong.


Nien thieu va hoc van Paul Kalanithi sinh ngay 1 thang 4 nam 1977 va song tai Westchester, New York. Anh sinh ra trong mot gia đinh tin huu Thien chua giao chuyen toi tu Tamil Nadu va Andhra Pradesh, An Đo. Kalanithi co hai nguoi anh em trai, Jeevan va Suman; Jeevan la mot ky su ve may tinh/robot va Suman la mot nha than kinh hoc. Gia đinh anh chuyen tu Bronxville, New York toi Kingman, Arizona khi Kalanithi len 10. Kalanithi theo hoc truong Trung hoc Kingman, noi anh tot nghiep voi tu cach thu khoa (en:valedictorian).
Kalanithi đa theo hoc Đai hoc Stanford, noi anh tot nghiep voi bang Cu nhan va Thac si (Master of Arts) nganh Van hoc Anh, va mot bang Cu nhan khoa hoc (Bachelor of Science) nganh nhan sinh hoc vao nam 2000. Sau khi tot nghiep Stanford, anh tiep tuc theo hoc Đai hoc Cambridge, noi anh hoc tap tai Đai hoc Darwin va tot nghiep voi bang Thac si nganh Lich su va Triet hoc ve Khoa hoc va Y hoc. Mac du ban đau đinh theo đuoi bang tien si nganh Van hoc Anh, Kalanithi sau đo theo hoc tai Truong Y khoa Đai hoc Yale (Yale School of Medicine), noi anh tot nghiep voi bang danh du cum laude nam 2007, đuoc trao tang Giai thuong Tien si Louis H. Nahum cho nghien cuu cua anh ve hoi chung Tourette. Ong đuoc gioi thieu vao hoi danh du y hoc quoc gia Alpha Omega Alpha.
Tai Yale, Kalanithi đa gap Lucy Goddard, nguoi se tro thanh vo tuong lai cua anh.


Su nghiep Sau khi tot nghiep truong y, Kalanithi tro ve Stanford đe hoan thanh khoa đao tao noi tru cua minh ve nganh phau thuat than kinh va hoc bong sau tien si ve khoa hoc than kinh tai Truong Y khoa Đai hoc Stanford.
Vao thang 5 nam 2013, Kalanithi đuoc chan đoan mac benh ung thu phoi te bao khong nho (non-small-cell) duong tinh voi EGFR di can giai đoan IV. Anh qua đoi vao thang 3 nam 2015 o tuoi 37.


Đoi tu Kalanithi đa cuoi Lucy (nhu danh Goddard), va co voi nhau mot con gai, Elizabeth Acadia ("Cady"). Lucy la mot bac si noi khoa tai Trung tam nghien cuu uu tu lam sang (Clinical Excellence Research Center) thuoc Truong Y khoa Đai hoc Stanford, co cung la nguoi viet loi bat cho cuon Khi hoi tho hoa thinh khong.
Mac du Kalanithi đuoc nuoi duong trong mot gia đinh tin huu Thien chua giao mo đao, ong đa tu bo đuc tin o trong nhung nam thieu nien va lua tuoi hai muoi cua minh đe ung ho cac y tuong khac. Tuy nhien, ong van giu lai "cac gia tri trung tam cua Cong giao – hy sinh, cuu chuoc, tha thu" va quay tro lai voi Thien chua giao sau nay trong cuoc đoi cua minh. Trong cuon sach cua minh, ong tham chi con noi rang neu ong tro nen mo đao hon khi con nien thieu, ong se tro thanh mot muc su.


Thu muc = Sach phi hu cau =
Khi hoi tho hoa thinh khong (When Breath Becomes Air)


= Tieu luan =
"How Long Have I Got Left?" cho The New York Times
"Before I go: Time warps for a young surgeon with metastatic lung cancer" for Stanford Medicine Magazine
"My last day as a surgeon" for The New Yorker
"Terra Incognita: Remembering Sherwin Nuland" for The Paris Review


= Bai bao hoc thuat =
Chi cac bai viet la tac gia chinh (lead author) đuoc liet ke ben duoi

Kalanithi, P. S.; Arrigo, R. T.; Tran, P; Gephart, M. H.; Shuer, L; Fisher, R; Boakye, M (2014). "Rehospitalization and emergency department use rates before and after vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: Use of state databases to provide longitudinal data across multiple clinical settings". Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. Quyen 17 so 1. tr. 60–4, discussion 64–5. doi:10.1111/ner.12051. PMID 23551457.
Kalanithi, P. S.; Henderson, J. M. (2012). "Emerging Horizons in Neuromodulation – New Frontiers in Brain and Spine Stimulation". International review of neurobiology. International Review of Neurobiology. Quyen 107. tr. 185–205. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-404706-8.00010-3. ISBN 9780124047068. PMID 23206683. {{Chu thich tap chi}}: |chapter= bi bo qua (tro giup)
Kalanithi, P. A.; Arrigo, R; Boakye, M (2012). "Morbid obesity increases cost and complication rates in spinal arthrodesis". Spine. Quyen 37 so 11. tr. 982–8. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e31823bbeef. PMID 22037526.
Kalanithi, P; Schubert, R. D.; Lad, S. P.; Harris, O. A.; Boakye, M (2011). "Hospital costs, incidence, and inhospital mortality rates of traumatic subdural hematoma in the United States". Journal of Neurosurgery. Quyen 115 so 5. tr. 1013–8. doi:10.3171/2011.6.JNS101989. PMID 21819196.
"National complication rates and disposition after posterior lumbar fusion for acquired spondylolisthesis". Spine. Quyen 34 so 18. 2009. tr. 1963–9. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ae2243. PMID 19652635. {{Chu thich tap chi}}: Đa bo qua tham so khong ro |authors= (tro giup)
Kalanithi, P. S.; Zheng, W; Kataoka, Y; Difiglia, M; Grantz, H; Saper, C. B.; Schwartz, M. L.; Leckman, J. F.; Vaccarino, F. M. (2005). "Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Quyen 102 so 37. tr. 13307–12. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10213307K. doi:10.1073/pnas.0502624102. PMC 1201574. PMID 16131542. father. name.


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