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《当呼吸化为空气（双语版）》 保罗·卡拉尼什 11个笔记 点评 - 2024/03/03 认为好看

读这本书可以给人带来信念，也会让人去反思生命和死亡的意义。  
本书主角是一个医生，前半部分讲述的是他作为一个医学生，从学医到医生阶段见识过太多病人的生老病死。而后半部分讲述的是这个医生自己获得了癌症，然后他自己是如何面对这个疾病的过程。从医生变成病人的转变，从看到别人经历痛苦，到自己经历痛苦的过程。  
虽然描述的是疾病与痛苦，但如书名一样的带来人一种温馨的、轻快的节奏。很多虽然痛苦的事情和经历，但是就在轻描淡写之间一笑而过。  
死亡其实也就是说尘归尘，土归土的过程，而生命就像呼吸，呼吸就是将氧气化为空气，主角最后也是通过呼吸机来维持生命。  
本书从多角度来看待生命与死亡，当医生自己得知自己患病时，他是如何去对待生活与现实的？

第二十九章 2 - 2024/03/03 发表想法

当人身处一定的位置时，有些压力必须要去承担。

> 原文：Could it wait until tomorrow?  
> No.  
> A sigh,and Earth continued to rotate back toward the sun.As a chief resident,nearly all responsibility fell on my shoulders,and the opportunities to succeed—or fail— were greater than ever.The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement
  • Could it wait until tomorrow?No.A sigh,and Earth continued to rotate back toward the sun.As a chief resident,nearly all responsibility fell on my shoulders,and the opportunities to succeed—or fail— were greater than ever.The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.Good intentions were not enough,not when so much depended on my skills,when the difference between tragedy and triumph was defined by one or two millimeters.

  • 2024/03/03 发表想法

    好心不一定能办好事，还需要有好的技术来支撑。

    原文：Good intentions were not enough,not when so much depended on my skills,when the difference between tragedy and triumph was defined by one or two millimeters

  • 2024/03/03 发表想法

    这本书分为两个部分，part one和part two 。part one讲述的是主角从一个医学生成为医生的心理过程及角色转变。他在医院的时候见识了太多的生老病死

    原文：One day,Matthew,the little boy with the brain tumor who had charmed the ward a few years back,was re-admitted.His hypothalamus had,in fact,been slightly damaged during the operation to remove his tumor;the adorable eight-year-old was now a twelve-year-old monster.He never stopped eating;he threw violent fits.His mother's arms were scarred with purple scratches.Eventually Matthew was institutionalized:he had become a demon,summoned by one millimeter of damage.

第三十一章 1 - 2024/03/04 发表想法

讲述的是主角身为医生，但是自己也身患癌症。从刚开始时的悲伤，到后面的平淡接受，甚至回归到工作岗位重新为人治病。在这个过程中，他既有身为医生的专业能力，又能够和病人一样感同身受，慢慢的在适应了并爱上了这个新的工作机会。

> 原文：it.But now I started coming in earlier,staying later,fully caring for the patients again,adding another four hours to a twelve-hour day.It put the patients back in the center of my mind at all times.The first two days I thought I would have to quit,battling waves of nausea,pain,and fatigue,retreating to an unused bed in down moments to sleep.But by the third day,I had begun to enjoy it again,despite the wreck of my body.Reconnecting with patients brought back the meaning of this work
  • it.But now I started coming in earlier,staying later,fully caring for the patients again,adding another four hours to a twelve-hour day.It put the patients back in the center of my mind at all times.The first two days I thought I would have to quit,battling waves of nausea,pain,and fatigue,retreating to an unused bed in down moments to sleep.But by the third day,I had begun to enjoy it again,despite the wreck of my body.Reconnecting with patients brought back the meaning of this work 第三十二章 2
  • ell me three months,I'd spend time with family.Tell me one year,I'd write a book.Give me ten years,I'd get back to treating diseases.The truth that you live one day at a time didn't help:What was I supposed to do with that day
  • Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst;the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life 第三十三章 EPILOGUE

  • 2024/03/04 发表想法

    后续这一块是主角保罗的妻子描述的内容，讲述了保罗去世之后的经历，以及他们家庭的感受，这本书籍的出版相关内容。

    原文：EPILOGUE

    Lucy Kalanithi

    You left me,sweet,two legacies,

    —A legacy of love

    A Heavenly Father would content,

    Had he the offer of;

    You left me boundaries of pain

    Capacious as the sea,

    Between eternity and time,

    Your consciousness and me.

    —Emily Dickinson

    Paul died on Monday,March 9,2015,surrounded by his family,ina hospital bed roughly two hundred yards from the labor and delivery ward where our daughter,Cady,had entered the world eight months before.

  • patient.He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality 来自微信读书