Dr. Harper has 25 years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology. MICHELE HARPER: (Reading) I am the doctor whose palms bolster the head of the 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his brain. Her book, The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. In "The Beauty in Breaking," Dr. Michele Harper shares stories from the field, and how healing patients who've trusted her with their lives taught her to care for herself. Usually I read to escape. But if it's just a one-time event in the ER and they're discharged and go out into the world - there are people and stories that stay with us, clearly, as I write about such cases. It's not an issue. Nobody in the department did anything for her or me. We had frequent shifts together. Her book, The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. When I left the room, I found out that the police officer had said that he was going to try to arrest me for interfering with his investigation. And in reflecting on their relationship, you write, (reading) it's strange how often police officers frequently find the wackadoos (ph). I knew that I would do well enough in school so that I would be independent emotionally and financially, that I wouldn't feel dependent on a man the way that I saw the dynamic in my home, where my mother was dependent upon the financial resources of my father. And so it was a long conversation about her experiences because for me in that moment, I - and why I stayed was it was important for me to hear her. Shane, Dr. Michelle's spouse, is a fireman and the Deputy Conservation Officer. You want to describe some of the family dynamics that made it hard? They didn't inquire about any of us. Dr. Michele Harper is a New Jersey-based emergency room physician whose memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, is available now. Dr. Michelle Oakley and her husband, Shane Oakley, are still married. When I speak to people in the U.K. about medical bills, they are shocked that the cost of care [in the U.S.] can be devastating and insurmountable, she says. Recorded in Miami [] And it's the end of my shift. Nope - not at all because different would mean structural change. And so then my brother became the target of violence from my father. And you - I guess, gradually, you kept some contact with your father, then eventually cut off Off contact altogether. I felt Id lost the capacity to write or speak well, but there were stories that stayed with me this sense of humanity and spirituality that called to me from my work in the medical practice. Turns out she couldn't, and the hospital legal told her that I was actually quoting the law. Be it Mr. Spano, my ex-husband, my . Later, I learned they hired a white male nurse instead. We're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. (SOUNDBITE OF TAYLOR HASKINS' "ALBERTO BALSALM"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And you're right. Indeed, Dr. Emily revealed the reasons behind why Dr. Sharkey left in a tweet on February 21, 2020. And so when I was ordering her tests, I didn't need to order liver function tests. This was a middle-aged white woman, and she certainly didn't know anything about me because I had just walked into the room and said my name. She has a new memoir about her experiences called "The Beauty In Breaking." Her story begins with an introduction to her dysfunctional family, her childhood of physical abuse, and her . MICHELE HARPER: I'm - I feel healthy and fine. And in this case, the resident, who kind of tried to go over your head to the hospital, was a white person. Michele Harper is a female African American emergency room physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. Harper shares her poignant stories from the ER with Mitchell Kaplan. April 12, 2014. Michele D. Thomas, MD Colon & Rectal Surgery. DAVIES: And what would they have wanted you to do, other than to evaluate his health? You know, the dynamics are interesting there. Racism affects everything with my work as a doctor. She was in there alone. And also because of the pain I saw and felt in my home, it was also important for me to be of service and help to other people so that they could find their own liberation as well. But this is another example of - as I was leaving the room, I just - I sensed something. HARPER: The change is that we've had donations. HARPER: It was. I mean, I ended up helping my brother get care for that wound. And it just - something about it - I couldn't let it go. Her vitals were fine. D.C., in a complicated family, she attended Harvard, where she met her husband. She just sat there. 119 posts. He is affiliated with medical facilities Baptist Health Floyd and Clark Memorial Health. The Beauty in Breaking tells the story of Dr. Harper, a female, African American, ER physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. HARPER: I think it's more accurate to say in my case that you get used to the fact that you don't know what's going to happen. Its 11 a.m., and Michele Harper has just come off working a string of three late shifts at an emergency room in Trenton, N.J. There are so many barriers to entry in medicine for people of color: the cost of medical school, wage gaps, redlining, access to good public education and more. HARPER: Yes. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the . And then if we found it and we're supposed to get it out, then we'd have to put a tube into his stomach and put in massive amounts of liquid so that he would eventually pass it. In medicine, theres no consensus that racism is a problem. If the patient doesn't want the evaluation, we do it anyway. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Angelina Jolie 's ex-girlfriend Jenny Shimizu also got married recently, tying the knot last week to socialite Michelle Harper. The end of her marriage brought the beginning of her self-healing. I continued, "So her complaint is not valid. She was cast by Lady Gaga in the Elle magazine series The New Muse. Michele Harper is a female African American emergency room physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. But one of the things that's interesting about the story, as you tell it, is that, you know, there was this imperative, as there typically are in families of - in battered families, to keep it secret, to keep the whole - keep a respectable front. About Elise Michelle Harper, MD. If we had more healthcare providers with differing physical abilities and health challenges, who didn't come from wealthy families that would be a strong start. Her behavior was out of line.". As Harper remembers it, The whole gamut of life seemed to be converging in this space., She decided she wanted to become an emergency room doctor because unlike in the war zone that was my childhood, I would be in control of that space, providing relief or at least a reprieve to those who called out for help.. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. I mean, I've literally had patients who are having heart attacks - and these are cases where we know, medically, for a fact, they are at risk of significant injury or death, where it's documented - I mean, much clearer cut than the case we just discussed, and they have the right - if they are competent, they have the right to sign themselves out of the department and refuse care. It made me think that you really connect with patients emotionally, which I'm sure takes longer but maybe also has a cost associated with it. And, you know, of note, Dominic, the patient, and I were the two darkest-skinned people in the department. HARPER: And yes, you know, that's - and I'm glad you bring that up. He did not - well, no medical complaints. Join us for an enlightening discussion with Dr. Michele Harper as she highlights the lessons learned on her inspiring personal journey of discovery and self-reflection as written in her New York Times Best Selling memoir, The Beauty in Breaking. You know, I speak about some of my experiences, as you mention, where I was in a large teaching hospital, more affluent community, predominantly white and male clinical staff. I want you out of here." Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, I read books from across the U.S. to understand our divided nation. What that means is patients will often come in - VA or otherwise, they'll come in for some medical documentation that medically, they're OK to then go on to a sober house or a mental health care facility. Whats more important is to be happy, to give myself permission to live with integrity so that I am committed to loving myself, and in showing that example it gives others permission to do the same.. The other part of me was pissed off that she felt so entitled to behave so indecently. And when they showed up, they said, well, I suppose we'll just arrest you both, meaning my father and my brother. . You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. It's many people. In this summer of protest and pain, perhaps most telling is Harpers encounter with a handcuffed Black man brought into the emergency room by four white police officers (like rolling in military tanks to secure a small-town demonstration). The pair married in Hawaii on December 10, 1992. We learn names and meet families. Sep 28. One of the gifts of her literary journey, she says, are the conversations she is having across the country and around the world about healthcare. To say that the last year has been one of breaking, of brokennessbroken systems, broken lives, broken promiseswould be an understatement. That was a gift they gave me. Because she's yelling for help." But you don't - it's really the comfort with uncertainty that we've gained. These are the risks we take every day as people of color, as women in a structure that is not set up to be equitable, that is set up to ignore and silence us often. Several years ago, I had applied for a promotion at a hospital. The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison All of Us research program collaborate to host a talk by Dr. Michele Harper. Dr. Harper received her BA in Psychology from Harvard University . And it was impetus for me to act because it's one thing to realize. Until that's addressed, we won't have more people from underrepresented communities in medicine. And in that story and after - when I went home and cried, that was a moment where that experience allowed me to be honest. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Then along the way, undergrad, medical school, that was no longer a refuge. Let me reintroduce you. Monday, 8/22/2022 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm . Michele Harper was a teenager with a learner's permit when she volunteered to drive her older brother, John, to an emergency room in Silver Spring, Md., so he could be treated for a bite wound . Michele Harper, 2020. And the police were summoned only once. She was young. What I see is that certain patients are not protected and honored; its often patients who are people of color, immigrants who don't speak English, women, and the poor. She wanted to file a police report, so an officer came to the hospital. She received her medical degree from Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and has . She says writing became not only a salve to dramatic life changes but a means of healing from the journey that led her to pursue emergency medicine as a career. Theres no easy answer to this question. In this gutting, philosophical memoir, a 37- year-old neurosurgeon chronicled what it is like to have terminal cancer. DAVIES: I don't want to dwell on this too much. And eventually you call it. And I remember one time when he was protecting my mother - and so I ended up fighting with my father - how my father, when my brother had him pinned to the ground, bit my brother's thumb. DAVIES: You know, the ER doctor has these intense encounters, but they're usually one-time events. And I remember thinking to myself, what could lead a person to do something so brutal to a family member? Dr. Michele Harper, a New Jersey-based emergency room physician, has over a decade's experience in the ER. Well, as the results came back one by one, they were elevated. One of the grocery clerks who came in, a young Black woman, told me she didnt know if she had the will to live anymore. You were the attending person who was actually her supervisor, but she thought she could take this into her own hands. In her memoir of surviving abuse, divorce, racism and sexism, an emergency room physician tells the story of her life through encounters with patients shes treated along the way. Thats why I have to detonate my life. His office is not accepting new patients. There's another moment in the book where you talk about having tried to resuscitate a baby who was brought in who died. So he would - when he was big enough, he would intervene and try and protect my mother. But, you know, I'm a professional, so I just move on and treat her professionally each shift. Know My Name, by Chanel Miller. I was horrified. When I was in high school, I would write poetry, she says. My being there with them in the moment did force me to be honest with myself about - that's why it was so painful for the marriage to end. They have no role in a febrile seizure. I asked her if there was anything we at the hospital could do, after I made sure she wasn't in physical danger and wasn't going to kill herself. Learn More. How are you? HARPER: Yes. And when I got follow-up on the case later, that's exactly what had happened. So that's what she was doing. So it never felt safe at home. For example: at hospitals in big cities, why doesnt the staff reflect the diversity of its community? HARPER: Yes. Eventually she said, I come here all the time and you're the only problem. I'm also the only Black doctor she's seen, per her chart. HARPER: First of all, shout out to Lincoln and Lincoln residency because that was one of - professionally, that was one of the most rewarding times of my education and career. You want to just describe what happened here? And the police did show up. You want to just tell us about this interaction? HARPER: I do. She was healthy. There were other popular employees like Dr. Sandra Wisniewski and Dr. Elizabeth Grammar who also left the show. And my staff - I was working with a resident at the time who didn't understand. But I think there's something in this book about what you get out of treating these patients, the insight of this center of emergency medicine that you talk about. At some point, I heard screaming from her room. Dr. Harper is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial. Weve all seen the signs that say Thank You Health Care Heroes. How does Harpers memoir change how you think of those words? She was a Black patient. And he said, but, you know, I hope you'll stay on with me. Situations, experiences, can break us in ways that if we make another set of decisions, we won't heal or may even perpetuate violence. D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Then I started the medical path, and it beat the words out of me. She is an advocate of personal wellness and evolution as a foundation for collective liberation. But I feel well. Michele Harper, the author of The Beauty in Breaking, will be in conversation with Times reporter Marissa Evans at the Los Angeles Times Book Club. And I was qualified, more than qualified. A recurring theme in The Beauty in Breaking is the importance of boundaries, which has become more essential as Harper juggles a demanding ER schedule and her writing. . This was not one of those circumstances. HARPER: Oh, yeah, all the time. This is FRESH AIR. I drove a cab in Philly in the late '70s, and some of the most depressing fares I had were people going to the VA hospital and people being picked up at the VA hospital. Read an excerpt from chapter 1: With the final DC home, house number three, we had arrived on the "Gold Coast.". She was rushed into the department unconscious, not clear why but assuming a febrile seizure, a seizure that children - young children can have when they have a fever. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. So they're recycled through some outside company. They stayed together . All of those heroes trying to recover from the trauma of the pandemic are trying to figure out how to live and how to survive.. Brought up in Washington, DC, in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. And then there's the transparent shield. Of the doctors and nurses on duty, I was the only Black person. she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. and an older woman carrying the burdens of a sick husband and differently abled grandchild. It is not graphic, but it is in some respects troubling. 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 her he couldn't . You write that the hospital would be so full of patients that some would wait in the ER, and then you would be expected to care for them in addition to those arriving for emergency care. Photo: LaTosha Oglesby. I love the protests. HARPER: No. The past few nights shes treated heart and kidney failure, psychosis, depression, homelessness, physical assault and a complicated arm laceration in which a patient punched a window and the glass won. These aren't - the structural racism isn't unique to the police, unfortunately. I said, "What is going on?" 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I kept thinking, This is absurd. Part of me was laughing inside because she thought she could be so ignorant and inappropriate. But the shortages remain. My guest is Dr. Michele Harper. She casually replied, "Oh, the police came to take her report and that's who's in there." DAVIES: You know, you write in the very beginning of the book, in describing what the book is about, that you want to take us into the chaos of emergency medicine and show us where the center is. I'm hoping that we will. We Hope she misses her camera days and returns to Michigan and the show "Dr. Pol.". The popular couple has been together for over two decades, and . In another passage, Harper recounts an incident in which a patient unexpectedly turns violent and attacks her during an examination. She's a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at . Original network. I didn't know why. Add to Calendar 2022-08-22 20:00:00 2022-08-22 21:00:00 America/Chicago Online Author Talk With Michele Harper As part of our new Online Author Series, we present a conversation with Dr. Michele Harper about her inspiring personal journey and the success of her New York Times bestselling memoir, "The Beauty in Breaking." Adults. The end of her marriage brought the beginning of her self-healing. She now works at Virginia Warren County Veterinary Clinic. So it felt particularly timely that, for The . DAVIES: Right. That's depleting, and it's also rewarding to be of service. Share this page on LinkedIn. Get out. And I think that that has served me well. And that's just when the realities of life kicked in. Was it OK? It's your patients. Her memoir is "The Beauty In Breaking." This final, fourth installment of the United We Read series delves into books from Oregon to Wyoming. Education. Join us for an enlightening discussion with Dr. Michele Harper as she highlights the lessons learned on her inspiring personal journey of discovery and self-reflection as written in her New York . You know, ER doctors and nurses have a lot of dealings with police, and there's a lot of talk about reforming police these days, you know, defunding police in the wake of protests of police killings of African Americans. Because if the person caring for you is someone who hears you, who truly understands you thats priceless. She was there with her doting father. The Beauty in Breaking is a journey of a thousand judgment calls, including some lighter moments. She was chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and has worked in several emergency medicine departments in the Philadelphia area where she lives today. Los Angeles. Sign up on Eventbrite. Dr. Michele Harper is a New Jersey-based emergency room physician whose memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, is available now. From there, Harper went to an emergency room in North Philadelphia (which had a volume of more than 95,000 patients a year) and then across town to yet another facility, where she had fewer bureaucratic obligations and more time for her true calling: seeing patients. That is my mission. Photos of Harper the bride wearing her voluminous wedding gown on . Welcome to Group Text, a monthly column for readers and book clubs about the novels, memoirs and short-story collections that make you want to talk, ask questions, and dwell in another world for a little bit longer. By Katie Tamola Published: Jul 17, 2020. What was different about me in that case when my resident thought I didn't have the right to make this decision was because I was dark-skinned. I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR. So I ran downstairs and called the police. And one of the reasons I spoke about this case is because one may think, OK, well, maybe it's not clear cut medically, but it really is. Harper shares her poignant stories from the ER with Mitchell Kaplan. He said it wasn't true. She is an emergency room physician, and she has a new memoir about her experiences. She received a Bachelor of Science at Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Human Science and Doctorate from National College of Chiropractic. DAVIES: We're going to take another break here. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Share this page on Twitter. So I explained to her the course of treatment and she just continued to bark orders at me. It was a gift that they gave me that, then, yes, allowed me to heal in ways that weren't previously possible. But there has to be that agreement and understanding or nothing will be done about it. And I said, "She's racist, I literally just said my name," and I repeated what happened. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she attended Harvard, where she met her husband. There have been clear violations of that mission, deviation from that mission. So I call the accepting hospital back to let them know that. The emergency room is a place of intensitya place of noise and colors and human drama. It was me connecting with her. You want to just describe what happened with this baby? THE BEAUTY IN BREAKING (Riverhead, 280 pp., $27) is the riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring story of how she made this happen. Michele Harper. The Beauty in Breaking is Michele Harpers first book. Michelle Harper's age is 44. TV doctor Dawn Harper has split from her husband of 20 years Graham Isaac. I mean, was it difficult? Join our community book club. Dr. Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade at various institutions, including as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. 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