The
Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
by Michele Harper
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An
emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her
how to heal herself.
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 a complicated
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.
The Beauty in Breaking is the
poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing. Each of the
patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation
and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky. How to tell
the truth when it's simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion
isn't the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement
of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and
dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to
make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful,
moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons
that she has learned as a daughter, a woman, and a physician.
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