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

Paul Kalanithi, MD, is a Stanford neurosurgeon with lung cancer. He wrote a popular op-ed for The New York Times in early 2014 about his experiences after diagnosis. Here he reflects on the nature of time and how his perception of it has changed, as doctor, patient and new father. Read Dr. Kalanithi’s essay in Stanford Medicine magazine Read his New York Times op-ed, “How Long Have I Got“