![]() ![]() ![]() The Beauty in Breaking is also about Michele’s personal transformation: reeling from divorce and plagued with doubt, she nonetheless started over in a new city and tapped into a deep well of resilience. Her cases are riveting, and they are heartbreaking, and they bring to life the ways in which poverty and oppression are medical issues within themselves. And she explains the inherent and enraging injustices embedded in the medical establishment as we know it today. Harper tells us how a childhood marked by violence prepared her for the ER: how she instinctively assesses levels of danger in any situation, how she brings her full humanity to work, with all the sensitivities and perspective that entails, how she handles sometimes fraught relationships with colleagues, students, and law enforcement while practicing her profession. The Beauty In Breaking is a memoir of her work as an emergency room physician in some of the most underserved communities in America, and about her own history of wounds that needed to be healed before she could provide for others.ĭr. Michele Harper was noteworthy: she is among the mere 2% of doctors working in America today who are Black women. Even before writing her powerful, exquisitely written memoir about the healing of self and others, the extraordinary Dr. ![]()
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