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Meet the Author
“ THE BEAUTY IN BREAKING is a riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring story Just as Harper would never show up to examine a patient without her stethoscope, the reader should not open this book without a pen in hand. There are so many powerful beats you’ll want to underline.” —The New York Times Book Review. Michele Harper has spent her career as an ER physician at hospitals in the South Bronx and Philadelphia. In her debut memoir, she shares stories from the field, and how healing patients taught her to care for herself. The book is called “ The Beauty in Breaking.” KCRW: You witnessed a lot of violence growing up. Michele Harper is an emergency room physician and the author of The Beauty in Breaking, a memoir of service, transformation, and self-healing.In her talks, Dr. Harper speaks on how the policies and systemic racism in healthcare have allowed the most.
Michele Harper
Dr Michele Harper Bio
Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade at various institutions, including as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. The Beauty in Breaking is her first book.
Michele Harper featured in PEOPLE’s Voices from the Fight Against Racism:
“‘There Are Constant Battles’: Dr. Michele Harper Opens Up About Racism in the Emergency Room“
Recent Essays by Michele Harper:
Michele Harper Md
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.
- “When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine” (Elemental )
- “The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will” (Zora)
- “Sovereign Bodies” (The Cut)
Michele is listed with the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau | Follow Michele on Facebook and Instagram
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