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.
, 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.
Riverhead Books The beauty in breaking: a memoir, hardcover/michele harper
