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The beauty in breaking : a memoir / Michele Harper.

Harper, Michele, (author.).

Summary:

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 just 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525537380 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0525537384 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780525537397
  • ISBN: 0525537392
  • Physical Description: xiv, 284 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Harper, Michele.
Emergency physicians > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American women physicians > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Allentown Public Library 616.028 HARP (Text) 34455006761171 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 616.028 (Text) 33062009316812 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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