Michele Harper | Beauty in Breaking
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I first heard about my guest today, Michele Harper, when stumbled upon an essay she published earlier this year, entitled When This War is Over, May of Us Will Leave Medicine. It was about the reality of her day-to-day life as an ER doc during the early days of the pandemic. It was a devastating, powerful, deeply human read. That led me to her beautiful and, at times, heartbreaking, yet hopeful New York Times bestselling memoir, The Beauty in Breaking. (https://bookshop.org/books/the-beauty-in-breaking-a-memoir/9780525537380)
Graduating from Harvard and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, for her entire career, Michele has sought emergency medicine positions in hospitals that serve under-resourced communities, often communities of color. She is not just a devout physician and healer, but also an advocate for dignity, equality and change. The seeds for this path were planted very early in life, though a blend of family trauma and deep personal conviction that has compelled her to not just take care of those in need, but also champion their humanity along the way.
You can find Michele Harper at:
Website : https://micheleharper.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/micheleharpermd/
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| 0:00.0 | So I first heard about my guest today in Shell Harbor when I stumbled upon an essay that |
| 0:11.6 | she had published earlier this year entitled, When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave |
| 0:18.6 | Medicine. |
| 0:20.1 | It was about the reality of her day-to-day life and those around her, her colleagues, as |
| 0:27.4 | an ER doc during the early days of the pandemic. |
| 0:31.7 | It was this devastating, powerful, deeply human read. |
| 0:37.8 | And that led me to her equally beautiful and moving and at times heartbreaking yet hopeful |
| 0:44.2 | New York Times best-selling memoir, The Beauty and Breaking. |
| 0:47.9 | So graduating Harvard and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, |
| 0:53.3 | for her entire career, Michelle has sought out emergency medicine positions in hospitals |
| 0:58.9 | that serve under-resourced communities, often communities of color. |
| 1:03.2 | And she's not just a devout physician and a healer, but also an advocate, an advocate |
| 1:10.2 | for dignity, for equality, and for change. |
| 1:13.0 | And the seats for this path were planted very early in her life through a blend of family |
| 1:18.4 | trauma and just growing deep personal conviction that has compelled her to not just take care |
| 1:25.0 | of those in need, but also champion their humanity along the way. |
| 1:30.2 | So excited to share this conversation with you on Jonathan Fields and this is a Good |
| 1:35.3 | Life Project. |
| 1:44.5 | You publish this piece, I think it was in April, late April, when this war is over, many |
| 1:50.4 | of us will leave medicine. |
| 1:52.9 | And it's such a compelling, moving, emotional piece of writing, but also a reflection. |
| 1:59.4 | And it was what it found stunning was, this was your personal experience, it was your |
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