The beauty in breaking : a memoir / Michele Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Michele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency physicians--United States--Biography.

Emergency physicians.

African American women--United States--Biography.

African American women.

African American women physicians--Biography.

African American women physicians.

Physicians.

Emergency Medicine.

Harper, Michele.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Physicians.

Emergency Medicine.

Genre:

Personal Narrative.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Authors' autographs.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, [2020]

Summary:

"A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Michele: a wing and a prayer

Dr. Harper: the view from here

Baby Doe: born perfect

Erik: violent behavior alter

Dominic: body of evidence

Jeremiah: cradle and all

In the name of honor

Joshua: under contract

Paul: murda, murda

Sitting with Olivia

Jenny and Mary: what falls away

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Athenaeum literary award ; 2020

Local Notes:

Athenaeum's copies signed by the author.

Athenaeum copies: Schneidman Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Harper, Michele. Beauty in breaking.

ISBN:

9780525537380

0525537384

OCLC:

1105736371