And they brought him in because, per their account, they had alleged that it was some sort of drug-related raid or bust, and they saw him swallow bags of drugs. Studies show that these doctors tend to be more empathetic to their patients. She received a Bachelor of Science at Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Human Science and Doctorate from National College of Chiropractic. . So the only difference with Dominic was he was a person considered not to have rights. Her story begins with an introduction to her dysfunctional family, her childhood of physical abuse, and her . And I said, "She's racist, I literally just said my name," and I repeated what happened. And I was qualified, more than qualified. Heather John Fogarty is a Los Angeles writer whose work is anthologized in Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing and by Joan Didions Light. She teaches journalism at USC Annenberg. I'm wondering if nowadays things feel any different to you in hospital settings and the conversations that you're having, the sensibilities of people around you. Sign up on Eventbrite. 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. And it felt dangerous. Dr. Michele Harper is an emergency medicine physician. 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DAVIES: And we should just note that you were able to calmly talk to him and ask him if he would let you take his vital signs. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. My ER director said that she complained. The patient, medically, was fine. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. I don't know if the allegations against him were true. So it did open me up to that realization. So I could relate to that. She was in there alone. And that was a time that you called. If you have a question for her, please leave it in the comments and she may respond then. Did you get more comfortable with it as time went on? Her book, The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. And when I got follow-up on the case later, that's exactly what had happened. The fact that, for this time, there are fewer sicker patients gives us the time to manage it. Michele Thomas, MD, is board certified in colon and rectal surgery . HARPER: Yeah. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Sometimes our supervisors dont understand. And it's a long, agonizing process, you know, administering drugs, doing the pumping. She really didn't know anything about medicine. Harper joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club June 29 to discuss The Beauty in Breaking, which debuted last summer as the nation reeled from a global pandemic and the pain of George Floyds murder. It certainly has an emotional toll. Author Talk w/ Dr. Michelle Harper: The Beauty in Breaking. Until that's addressed, we won't have more people from underrepresented communities in medicine. When we do experience racism, they often don't get it and may even hold us accountable for it. 304 pp. A teenage Harper had newly received her learners permit when she drove her brother, bleeding from a bite wound inflicted by their father during a fight, to the ER. And it just - something about it - I couldn't let it go. 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. There have been clear violations of that mission, deviation from that mission. He was in no distress. It's another thing to act. She looked fine physically. I mean, of course, if they're admitted to the hospital, we can - we usually get follow-up. 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. You got into Harvard, did well there and went to medical school. So they wanted us to prove it and get the drugs out. 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. Each milestone came with challenges: Harpers father tried to pass himself off as the wind beneath her wings at her medical school graduation, and her marriage to her college sweetheart fell apart at the end of her residency in the South Bronx. Fax: 1-512-324-7555. The N95s we use, there's been a recycling program. And my brother, who was older than me by about 8 1/2 years - he's older than me. Its really hard to get messages all the time and respond. Growing up, it was. Photos of Harper the bride wearing her voluminous wedding gown on . They stayed . While she was fighting for survival, I felt that what I could do, what the others of us could do, is not only help her find health again. 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 they were summoned, probably, a couple of times. 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. On Tuesday, July 21 at 7 p.m., well be talking live with Michele Harper on our Instagram. My trainee, the resident, was white. He did not want to be in the ER. Each chapter introduces us to a different case, although Harper never boils people down to their afflictions. For example, I had a patient who, when I walked into the room and introduced myself, cut me off and said, "Okay, yeah, well, this is what you're going to do for me today." Make an appointment by calling (302)644-8880. And that gave you some level of reassurance, I guess. I spoke to the pediatric hospital that would be accepting her. "was reminded, too, of Dr. Albert Kligman's experiments on imprisoned men in Philadelphia from the 1950s to the 1970s. Most of us have had the experience of heading to a hospital emergency room and having a one-time encounter with a physician who stitches our wounds, gives us medication or admits us for further treatment. That takes a little more time, you know, equitable hiring, equitable pay. You want to just describe what happened with this baby? Harper tells her story through the lives of people she encounters on stretchers and gurneys patients who are scared, vulnerable, confused and sometimes impatient to the point of rage. Recorded in Miami [] Working on the frontlines of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in a predominantly Black and brown community, Ive treated many essential workers: grocery store employees, postal workers. This is FRESH AIR. You know, there's no way for me to determine it. So not only are we the subject of racism but then we're blamed for the racism and held accountable for other people's bad behavior. Whether you have read The Beauty in Breaking or not there are important lessons in self-healing to take . DAVIES: Michele Harper, thank you so much for speaking with us. 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. Washington University School of Medicine, MSCI. April 12, 2014. We may have to chemically restrain him, give him medicine to somehow sedate him. I mean, did you worry at all that there's a chance he might have actually taken the drugs and that he could be in danger from not getting treated? And I'm not sure what the question here is. It's not graphic, but it is troubling. There were other popular employees like Dr. Sandra Wisniewski and Dr. Elizabeth Grammar who also left the show. And he apologized because he said that unfortunately, this is what always happens in this hospital - that the hospital won't promote women or people of color. You did. In that way, it can make it easier to move on because it's hard work. DAVIES: You describe being 7 years old and trying to understand this. I didnt know the endgame. But I just left it. That is my mission. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Michele Harper about her new memoir, The Beauty in Breaking. The following review first appeared in The DO magazine. HARPER: Yes. And in reflecting on their relationship, you write, (reading) it's strange how often police officers frequently find the wackadoos (ph). As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. HARPER: I do. In this gutting, philosophical memoir, a 37- year-old neurosurgeon chronicled what it is like to have terminal cancer. Her Patients, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/books/the-beauty-in-breaking-michele-harper.html. The curtain was closed. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central . In her new memoir, she shares some memorable stories of emergency medicine - being punched in the face by a young man she was examining, helping a woman in a VA hospital with the trauma of sexual assault she suffered serving in Afghanistan and treating a man for a cut on his hand who turned out to have incurred the wound while stabbing a woman to death. www.micheleharper.com. Thank you. Like any workplace, medicine has a hierarchy but people of color and women are usually undermined. Dr. Harper has particular interests in high-risk and routine obstetrics and preventive care. Dr. Harper is one of the mere 2% of Black women doctors working in America and she's on the front lines, as an Emergency Room doctor. Emergency room physician, Michele Harper, grew up in a complicated family. This final, fourth installment of the United We Read series delves into books from Oregon to Wyoming. DAVIES: I'm going to take a break here. Each one leads the author to a deeper understanding of herself and the reader to a clearer view of the inequities in our country. 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. 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.. 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. Anyone can read what you share. The show premiered 4 April 2014. Weve bought into a collective delusion that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. So it was always punctuated by violence. Michele Harper is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. 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. 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. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Share this page on Twitter. Her physical exam was fine. I'm the one who answered the door, and I was a child. And we have to be able to move on. Harper looks each one in the eye. Michele Harper An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Nobody in the department did anything for her or me. But she wasn't waking up, so I knew I was going to have to transfer her anyway. Certainly it was my safe haven when I could leave the home. Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House. Her physical exam was fine. That's an important point. Michele's husband, Dr. Martin MacNeill, had withheld decades of secrets from his family - from mistresses and falsified transcripts to a hidden felony conviction - a history that bolstered the . DAVIES: Right. She's a veteran emergency room physician. There was all of those forms of loss. After a childhood in Washington, D.C., she studied at Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She was saying, "Leave. But the shortages remain. 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. And my mother said, well, she didn't want to pursue charges if it meant my brother was going to be incarcerated. I enjoyed my studies. I love the protests. DAVIES: You did your residency in the South Bronx in a community that had issues with drug dealing and gang violence. We need to support our essential workers, which means having a living wage, affordable housing, sick leave and healthcare. Brought up in Washington, DC, in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. And the police were summoned only once. And that's just when the realities of life kicked in. (SOUNDBITE OF RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET'S "IBERIAN SUNRISE"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. I was the one to take a stand, to see if she was okay and to ask him to leave the room because she didn't feel safe, and she wasn't under arrest. And that description struck me. And is it especially difficult working in these hospitals where we don't have enough resources for patients, where a lot of the patients have to work multiple jobs because there isn't a living wage and we're their safety net and their home medically because they don't have access to health care? Now, of course, there are choices. They have no role in a febrile seizure. I recently had a patient, a young woman who was assaulted. We learn names and meet families. And so that has allowed us to keep having masks. She said no and that she felt safe. There wasn't a doctor assigned yet to her, she only had a nurse. So the police just left. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a . So I explained to her the course of treatment and she just continued to bark orders at me. And there was no pneumonia. She and I spoke for a long time about how she had no one to talk to, and now because of coronavirus, she was even more alone than she used to be. At some point, I heard screaming from her room. Dr. Michele Harper is a New Jersey-based emergency room physician whose memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, is available now. Dr. Harper received her BA in Psychology from Harvard University . They speak English and Spanish. 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. She spoke to me via an Internet connection from her home. HARPER: Yes. . Michele Harper was a teenager with a learners 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 on his left thumb. Their specialties include Obstetrics & Gynecology. Thats why I have to detonate my life. And, you know, while I haven't had a child that has died, I recognized in the parents when I had to talk to them after the code and tell them that their baby, that their perfect child - and the baby was perfect - had passed away, I recognized in them the agony, the loss of plans, of promise, the loss of a future that one had imagined. If the patient doesn't want the evaluation, we do it anyway. And even clinically, when I'm not, like when I worked at Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia, it's a similar environment. That was just being in school. So if I had done something different, that would have been a much higher cost to me emotionally. The Beauty in Breaking tells the story of Dr. Harper, a female, African American, ER physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. Summary. Dr. Michelle Oakley and her husband, Shane Oakley, are still married. Of the doctors and nurses on duty, I was the only Black person. So we didn't do it, and I discharged the patient, which was his wishes. 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. And my staff - I was working with a resident at the time who didn't understand. Situations, experiences, can break us in ways that if we make another set of decisions, we won't heal or may even perpetuate violence. She spent more than a decade as an emergency room physician. And apart from your many dealings with police as a physician, you had a relationship with a policeman you write about in the book, an officer who was getting out of a bad marriage to a woman who was irrational and very difficult. My guest is Dr. Michele Harper. Theres a newborn who isnt breathing; a repeat visitor whose chart includes a violent behavior alert; a veteran who opens up about what shes survived; an older man who receives a grim diagnosis with grace and humor. As an African American emergency room physician currently working in New Jersey, Dr. Michele Harper has not only been forced to constantly prove herself to her colleagues, patients and supervisors, but she has also been compelled to take a stand for people of color and women who are often undermined by the medical community. 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Shane, Dr. Michelle's spouse, is a fireman and the Deputy Conservation Officer. Talk about that a little. But your childhood was not easy. So in that way, it's hard. And your mother eventually remarried. This will be a lifetime work, though. Her vitals were fine. Dr. Michele B. Harper is an emergency medicine physician in Fort Washington, Maryland. I was really scared because I didnt know that I could write a book. So we reuse it over and over again. So I replied, "Well, do you want to check? Emergency room physician, Michele Harper, grew up in a complicated family. Their stories weigh heavily on my heart. So he would - when he was big enough, he would intervene and try and protect my mother. 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. 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. Is it different? So for me, school - and I went to National Cathedral School. DAVIES: Let me reintroduce you. And I thought back to her liver function studies, and I thought, well, they can be elevated because of trauma. Dr. Harper reflects on her journey from navigating a complicated family in Washington D.C. to attending Harvard, where she pursued emergency medicine and met her husband. Join us for an enlightening discussion with Dr. Michele Harper as she highlights the lessons learned on her inspiring personal journey of discovery and . ColorofChange.org works to make government more responsive to racial disparities. Emergency room doctor Michele Harper brings her memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, to the L.A. Times Book Club June 29. Be it Mr. Spano, my ex-husband, my . We'll continue our conversation in just a moment. Well, as the results came back one by one, they were elevated. They're allowed to do it. But I could do what I could to help her in that moment and then to address the institution as well. For example: at hospitals in big cities, why doesnt the staff reflect the diversity of its community? I always tell people, it's really great. Nat Geo WILD. Its a blessing, a good problem to have. And as a result, it did expedite the care that she needed. So they brought him in because part of their legal work is to prove it. In medicine, theres no consensus that racism is a problem. This was not one of those circumstances. He didn't want to be examined. 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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, I read books from across the U.S. to understand our divided nation. Weve all seen the signs that say Thank You Health Care Heroes. How does Harpers memoir change how you think of those words? Learn More. Several years ago, I had applied for a promotion at a hospital. Dr. Harper has 25 years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology. 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. While she waited for her brother she watched and marveled as injured patients were rushed in for treatment, while others left healed. 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. There was nothing to complain about. On the other hand, it makes the work easier just to be the best doctor you can and not get the follow-up. 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. After some time at a teaching hospital, you went to - you worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. 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. She writes that the moment was an important reminder that beneath the most superficial layer of our skin, we are all the same. DAVIES: I don't want to dwell on this too much. MICHELE HARPER: I'm - I feel healthy and fine. Can you just share a little bit of that idea? HARPER: It was. She was healthy. I feel a responsibility to serve my patients. There was no bruising or swelling. 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