“From the beginning I knew I had to do a similar thing with the strands of my story—to tell how a girl from a small and remote town on an Indian reservation was able to become a surgeon, able to work in the high-tech realm of a surgical operating room, and combine that with another story, about how ancient tribal ways and philosophies can help a floundering medical system find its way back to its original mission: healing.”
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ACEP Now: Vol 40 – No 10 – October 2021
My father gifted me this book at the outset of medical school. I had no idea that residency would bring me to New Mexico. Now, in my final year of training, I revisit this incredible story and feel the intertwining of my naive hopeful inspiration with the determined drive to continue working daily to see the beauty in a challenging time in medicine. The thread we all weave of our stories in and out of medicine is multicolored, and it connects us to our past and future paths.
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Allison NelsonNo Apparent Distress by Rachel Pearson,MD
It’s about her experiences with poverty and medicine and natural disasters. It’s beautiful and haunting and we all have similar stories…
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David PackoRead “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi, MD. Autobiography by a neurosurgical resident who develops metastatic lung cancer. Really good read and a tear-jerker…
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