A Strange Relativity: Altered Time for Surgeon-Turned-Patient

This is an 8 minute video made by Stanford neurosurgen and author Paul Kalanithi before his death. He reflects on the experience of time–as a physician, seeing patients and monitoring time and now, as a person with cancer and the parent of a baby.

The video could be used in a course in which Kalanthi’s book is assigned, to give students an opportunity to hear his reflections in his own voice and to see images of him with his family. It is also an example of the larger issue of what physicians notice about medical practice when they become a patient themselves.

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