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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (originale 2020; edizione 2020)

di Michele Harper (Autore)

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. New Age. Nonfiction. HTML:A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book �??Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.�?� �??The New York Times Book Review �??An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.�?� �??Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more 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, D.C., in a complicated 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 health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a da… (altro)

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Utente:	sophia.magyk
Titolo:	The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Autori:	Michele Harper (Autore)
Info:	Riverhead Books (2020), 304 pages
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Not exactly the kind of book I was looking for, but inspiring in its own way. It had a spiritual and philosophical component too that I wasn't expecting, but I liked it. It makes me want to practice more yoga and meditation. (

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sophia.magyk | Jan 3, 2024 |

I love medical memoirs. I gravitate toward them by default, so when this one showed up on my radar, it was a no-brainer. Harper's story is poignant and at times heartbreaking: exactly what you'd expect from a memoir written by an ER doctor who spends part of her career working for a VA hospital in Philadelphia.

There's also a deeply spiritual bent in Harper's storytelling that I didn't expect but fully appreciated. Her spirituality is non-traditional (she mentions the goddess a handful of times), but that's exactly that made it so appealing. I hadn't realized how much it would touch my soul to see my own spiritual beliefs reflected back at me in a mainstream book by a highly-respected doctor.

Although the dialogue was at times stilted and Harper's turns of phrase occasionally awkward and convoluted, there's also so much beauty in this book. In the writing, in the storytelling, and in the deeply human stories of love and loss. (

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Elizabeth_Cooper | Oct 27, 2023 |

I really wanted to like this but it felt very disjointed, self-congratulatory, and overall not a very cohesive series of stories. It kind of just felt like reading patient files with a hint of "btw I was abused and I'm smart" and I think it would have been more interesting to read just as case studies kind of separated from Michele herself. I wanted there to be more about how her childhood actually shaped her. I did appreciate the parts about her being a Black woman in medicine. (

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ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |

An intimate look at emergency medicine in modern urban America as well as the survival strategy of one accomplished black female doctor working within the constraints of that system. We should all be so lucky to be treated by a medical professional with Dr Harper's professional skills, empathy, energy, and communication abilities. I hope she is still publishing and practicing 25 years from now. (

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dele2451 | Aug 6, 2022 |

The experience of reading this book felt disjointed to me. I could not understand why the author only put in her childhood experience of a father physically abusive to her mother and brother, said she would write nothing about her experiences as an undergraduate at Harvard, talked about her divorce and breaking up with her boyfriend, wrote about her spiritual quest, and then made most of the chapters vignettes about patient experiences she had as an emergency room doctor. It was not until I read the epilogue that I realized the book was about being broken and then resolving that situation. I should have taken the clues from the book title, but I didn’t.

I was annoyed that in the writing they were so many terms that I did not know, even as a retired health professional. I was also annoyed that the author wrote about what she “was not going to write about” despite the reason.

The chapters themselves were good with the author presenting herself as a well qualified and caring emergency room physician. The individual patient stories presented situations of real social concerns. I consider this book good, but not one of the more memorable doctor’s memoirs. (

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Harper, Michele	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	confermato
Lewis, Nicole	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Lista completa – Saggistica – 2021)

Athenaeum Literary Award (Vincitore – 2020)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Lista breve – Saggistica – 2021)

Goodreads Choice Awards (Candidato – Memoir & Autobiography – 2020)

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As a black woman, I navigate an American landscape that claims to be post-racial when every waking moment reveals the contrary, an American landscape that requires all women to pound tenaciously against the proverbial glass ceiling, which we’ve since discovered is made of palladium, the kind of glass that would sooner bow than shatter.

Two of my patients spiked fevers, one became hypoxic, one had chest pain, and another went into rapid heart rate, which made me go into an even faster arrhythmia.

We are not yet at a time in America when the attributed or perceived actions of as brown or black or queer or Muslim “wrongdoer” are considered singular. Instead, such accused are seen as emblematic of an entire demographic, one labeled guilty before charged.

I wrote about these moments so we always remember the power of our actions, so we always remember that beneath the most superficial layer of our skin, we are all the same. In that sameness is our common entitlement to respect, our human entitlement to love.

There were nights when I was worried about his safety driving while black. But that was during an era in DC when black men of affluence were spared the violence upon our men of color. Those times have since changed; in this one way, our country has moved closer to class equality.

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. New Age. Nonfiction. HTML:A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book
�??Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.�?� �??The New York Times Book Review
�??An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.�?� �??Ellen Pompeo

As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
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, D.C., in a complicated 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 health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a da

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