![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. 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. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. “An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” -Ellen PompeoĪs seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and moreĪn emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. “Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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