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Healing journey of an ER physician's soul.

"The Beauty in Breaking" is a phenomenal choice if you're interested in the path to healing, both through the eyes of an emergency room physician and a personal journey of self-discovery. Michele Harper's narrative bridges the clinical and the emotional, as she navigates the complexities of humanity within the ER and her own life. You'll find connection in the shared experiences of brokenness and the universal quest for wholeness. It's raw, enlightening, and ultimately uplifting—a rare gem for both lovers of memoirs and those interested in the worlds of medicine and personal growth.

  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2020)
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The Beauty in Breaking

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ISBN: 9780525537380
Authors: Michele Harper
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2020-07-07
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 30837 readers)

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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, DC, 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. 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
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Healing journey of an ER physician's soul.

"The Beauty in Breaking" is a phenomenal choice if you're interested in the path to healing, both through the eyes of an emergency room physician and a personal journey of self-discovery. Michele Harper's narrative bridges the clinical and the emotional, as she navigates the complexities of humanity within the ER and her own life. You'll find connection in the shared experiences of brokenness and the universal quest for wholeness. It's raw, enlightening, and ultimately uplifting—a rare gem for both lovers of memoirs and those interested in the worlds of medicine and personal growth.

  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.