The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

I found this book in a small, lovely bookshop in Nantucket and read it in two days. Michele Harper is an African American ED physician who writes about her life as a woman and physician – her marriage, its end after medical school, and her gradual realization that we...
The Absolute Necessity of Doing Less

The Absolute Necessity of Doing Less

Last Saturday morning, with a sinus headache so bad that I decided to “allow” myself not to work, I heard my phone ring. Not spam!! It was my friend and colleague in pediatric anesthesia, who also happens to be my oldest daughter. Our conversations range all over the...