• #212 | The Limits of Science in Grasping the Human Condition—a Young Doctor on Facing His Own Mortality

  • Sep 23 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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#212 | The Limits of Science in Grasping the Human Condition—a Young Doctor on Facing His Own Mortality

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  • 🎙 Douglas Vigliotti discusses the thought-provoking memoir “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon who powerfully explores the profound questions of meaning, purpose, and mortality that arise when the young doctor faces his own terminal illness. Through Kalanithi's deeply personal and eloquent writing, listeners are confronted with the existential challenges of what it means to be human in the face of life's fragility. This book is a poignant meditation on one of life's most challenging questions: what makes a life worth living?

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