Harper, who has worked as an ER physician for more than a decade, said she found her own life broken when she began writing “The Beauty in the Breaking.” Her marriage had ended, and she had moved to Philadelphia to begin a new job. She writes, “If I were to evolve, I would have to regard his brokenness genuinely and my own tenderly, and then make the next best decision.” The experience leads her to reflect on the often underreported assaults on front-line medical workers and her own healing and growth as a physician. In another passage, Harper recounts an incident in which a patient unexpectedly turns violent and attacks her during an examination.
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