Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjeeis an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
cancer unique way
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
writing thinking firsts
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
self doubt physicians
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
daughter baseball cancer
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.
medicine doctors stories
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.