![]() How to understand that compassion isn't the same as justice. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: how to tell the truth when it's simpler to overlook it. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing. 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. 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, DC, 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. "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." ( The New York Times Book Review )Īs 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. ![]()
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