How tragic would it be to spend 36 years training to be doctor, but then not being able to practice as a doctor? Well, that’s what happened to Paul Kalanithi. At age 36, on the verge of completing residency, Paul was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. All of his hard work to be a neurosurgeon-neuroscientist went down the drain. I think that’s really tragic and terrible. I wouldn’t want that to happen to me. Even though he was sick during his last year of residency, he wanted to finish residency. I was very surprised and I disapproved. Wouldn’t you want to spend time with your family if you knew you might die? Or wouldn’t you at least do something to help you live longer? I thought. I knew that I would have done one of those things. …show more content…
Later, after a lot of treatments/appointments for Paul, they realized that Paul’s sickness made them be more together. I wonder why that happened. Maybe in times of sad possibilities, people forget any separation or separation possibilities. I think that getting lung cancer would have made Paul understand his work better. Being a neurosurgeon, Paul faced people with pain every day. Now that he knew what it was like to have pain, he would have understood his patients better. Before and after he was sick, Paul thought a lot about the meaning of life and death. “How do you make sense of death? He thought then wrote. “What makes human life meaningful?” After reading a few of these “meaning of life and death wonderings” I began to wonder too. I thought about the real meaning of life and death. In my opinion, Paul approached death and lung cancer very well. When he found out that he had a new tumor, he wasn’t angry or scared. He wrote, “It simply was. It was a fact about the world.” When he was about to die, he said “I’m ready.” That makes me think that he was courageous and was ready to face almost everything that came his
The time of life we call dying is an extremely difficult part of the life cycle, but a normal part," says palliative-care physician Ira Byock, author of Dying Well. "The nature of it isn't medical, it's experiential. " My grandfather had stage 4 lung cancer with metastatic to liver . Only palliative care advised by doctors. He was an strong personality .He loved all his grand kids too much.
One example of this is in one of his charges it says that he does not hate the men nor does he want them dead but he shoots when Captain Johansen gives the order. He was just following orders. Through out the story he also has internal struggles about him being courageous, doing the right thing, and being ridiculed for it or him not doing anything and let many innocent people just die. He uses one of Plato’s examples of courage when he says without knowing for certain that what a man does is right, is not true courage. He relates this to him killing all of these people in the war that he didn’t want to join in the first place.
He showed the true characteristics of a leader and a hero doing so by believing in equality and his men's determination to fight for their
Roles quickly reversed as I became the main caregiver for my grandfather, surgeries, chemotherapy and doctor’s appointments became my life. My grandfather has always been my greatest advocate, particularly with my studies. My dismissal has been heart-breaking to both him
Taking risks hasves its rewards. Soon after he took this bold action, he died and he continued to be idolized because of the decision he made. When you take a bold action there are
He even starved himself to show help people. He was a person who put people above him and never gave up on any cause he put his heart into. Never did he show weakness he was strong for the people he supported he was a hero. He didn't have to get better working conditions for those people he didn't have to keep living conditions equal after he made enough to survive he could have given himself so much more but he didn't he keep things equal.
He ended up getting himself and his friend hurt believing he could take on more than twenty men. He made his injuries worse by being delusional enough to think a servant girl looking for her lover was the daughter of a rich man going against her parents to be with him. He even set free a bunch of criminals thinking that their free will was being taken from them. There was an underlying reason that made some sense for these actions but were wrongly executed. He is a hero who lacks basic common sense and does whatever he thinks is right not what actually is
These qualities were what saved his life and helped preserve the memory of that terrible
He never gave up on what he wanted to know about. He spend hours doing research to bring life from death. He didn't not even think about any consequences about bringing something that is left back to life. He even spends time away from his family in order to accomplish the goal that he had for himself. All of this causes him to suffer because of the negative consequences that it brought him.
Illness as Metaphor Illness at a Metaphor by Susan Sontag discusses how metaphors complicate diseases or syndromes of multiple or unknown causes. Sontag says that the most truthful way to describe illnesses is without any influence of metaphors, to keep it as pure and scientific as possible (Sontag 3). However, metaphors are a part of everyday life and it is nearly impossible to escape the use of metaphors to describe illnesses.
His role as an oncologist has profoundly influenced the manner in which I plan to practice medicine in the future: with respect, compassion, and empathy for my patients. It was my observation of his interactions with cancer surviving patients that first inspired me to pursue medicine. These interactions inspired me not only to embark on a profession where I could serve others, but also make a difference in the lives of others. I believe I can make the biggest impact in the lives of my future patients by combining my passion for the clinic and science as a physician-scientist. Though I am early in my medical journey, and am willing to keep an open mind, it is only natural that I yearn to pursue a profession related to oncology.
Some view him as a hero whose ideals should be embraced, while others see him as an arrogant, stubborn, and reckless vagabond whose dreams led to his demise. With numerous opinions about who he was, it is up to the reader to choose their ideas of who he was. To me and many others
It not only showed that he accepted his demise, but also showed he did not regret the decisions he had made along his
Tragic hero is one of the elements of the most important elements of the tragedy. Tragic hero is usually the main character in the story which his/her wrong choices that are due to their personality cause their downfall. The heroes downfall is one of the saddest moments in the story. When I was thinking of a tragic hero that I know, name of a few characters from movies and a few from real life came to my mind. One of the most famous tragic hero that I know is Steve Jobs.
Riding out and making one last stand with his allies demonstrates his resolve about acting as a courageous and just