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Dr. Michele Harper says she doesn’t have any special powers. But for 36 hours every week, she works in a hospital emergency room and she has several jobs. She writes:

“... I am called upon to be salve, antidote, and sometimes Charon. Most of the time my job is to keep death at bay. When I am successful, I send the patient back out into the world. When I’m not, I am there as life passes away.”

In her first book, “The Beauty of Breaking,” Harper details what she’s learned about life, death and self-healing as a Black emergency room physician in the United States. She spoke with MPR News host Kerri Miller about the power in ‘breaking’ and what it means for growth in our lives. 

Dr. Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade. “

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MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with Black emergency room physician Dr. Michele Harper about her first memoir, “The Beauty in Breaking.”

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A woman wearing a blue blouse; the cover of the book.

An ER doctor shares lessons in first book, ‘The Beauty in Breaking’

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