The beauty in breaking : a memoir
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, [2020].
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
616.028 HARPER
2 available
616.028 HARPER
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, [2020].
Physical Desc
xiv, 284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken--physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process.