And there was no pneumonia. And that's just when the realities of life kicked in. 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. And if they could do that, if they could do an act that savage, then they are - the message that I took from that is that they are capable of anything. 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. But I always seen it an opportunity. Our mission is to get Southern California reading and talking. You got into Harvard, did well there and went to medical school. And then there's the transparent shield. Not only did he read his own CT scans, he stared unflinchingly at his own life and shared his findings with unimaginable courage. My director's initial response was just, "Well, you should be able to somehow handle it anyway. That is not acceptable, and yet these situations happen constantly. Dr. Michele B. Harper is an emergency medicine physician in Fort Washington, Maryland. She was cast by Lady Gaga in the Elle magazine series The New Muse. Talk about that a little. Nobody went to check on her. 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. Its really hard to get messages all the time and respond. But there has to be that agreement and understanding or nothing will be done about it. This will be a lifetime work, though. Whatever their wounds, whatever their trauma, it can make them act in this way. He has bodily integrity that should be respected. We may have to chemically restrain him, give him medicine to somehow sedate him. Michele Harpers memoir could not be more timely. They're allowed to do it. Harper shares her poignant stories from the ER with Mitchell Kaplan. There wasn't a doctor assigned yet to her, she only had a nurse. 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. Indeed, Dr. Emily revealed the reasons behind why Dr. Sharkey left in a tweet on February 21, 2020. 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. That takes a little more time, you know, equitable hiring, equitable pay. 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. I'm the one who answered the door, and I was a child. And I was - the only rescue would be one that I could manage for myself. It's called "The Beauty In Breaking.". I said, "What is going on?" 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 . The gash came from Harpers fathers teeth. It wasnt easy. I mean, mainly we get that to make sure there's no infection causing the fever. Then, thankfully, my father then left for a little bit also. And you said that when you went home, you cried. In that sameness is our common entitlement to respect, our human entitlement to love.. And I specifically don't speak about much of that time and I mentioned how graduation from undergrad was - pretty much didn't go because it was tough being a Black woman in a predominantly white, elitist institution. This is FRESH AIR. Join our community book club. Nobody answered. . 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. So they're coming in just for a medical screening exam. We're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. On the other hand, it makes the work easier just to be the best doctor you can and not get the follow-up. And I said, "She's racist, I literally just said my name," and I repeated what happened. The bosses know were getting sick, but won't let us take off until it gets to the point where we literally can't breathe. All rights reserved. This final, fourth installment of the United We Read series delves into books from Oregon to Wyoming. 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.. So we didn't do it, and I discharged the patient, which was his wishes. She is an emergency room physician, and she has a new memoir about her experiences. We need to support our essential workers, which means having a living wage, affordable housing, sick leave and healthcare. The popular couple has been together for over two decades, and . He didn't want to be examined. I had nothing objective to go on. Even before writing her powerful, exquisitely written memoir about the healing of self and others, the extraordinary Dr. Michele Harper was noteworthy: she is among the mere 2% of doctors working in America today who are Black women. 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. The following review first appeared in The DO magazine. So in trying to cope and trying to figure out what to do, she started drinking, and that's why we're seeing her getting sober. HARPER: It was. Dr. Michael Harper, MD is an Internal Medicine Specialist in Sellersburg, IN and has over 28 years of experience in the medical field. Michele Harper is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. That's the difference. Fashionista and businesswoman who is known for her eccentric dress style and public appearances. (SOUNDBITE OF TAYLOR HASKINS' "ALBERTO BALSALM"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. So, you know, initially, he comes in, standing - we're all standing - shackled hands and legs. At some point, I heard screaming from her room. Still reeling, Harper moved to Philadelphia to work at a hospital where she was eventually passed over for a promotion by an apologetic (white, male, liberal) department chair who said: I just cant ever seem to get a Black person or a woman promoted here. The other part of me was pissed off that she felt so entitled to behave so indecently. 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. It is the responsibility of everyone in the department. D.C., in a complicated family, she attended Harvard, where she met her husband. I mean, she said that she had been through a lot. And I didn't get the job. It wasn't about me. Michele Harper An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. DAVIES: Right. 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). Copyright 2020 NPR. National Cares Mentoring Movement (caresmentoring.org) provides social and academic support to help Black youth succeed in college and beyond. While she waited for John, she took in the scene in the emergency room: an old man napping, a young man waiting for a ride home, a father rushing through sliding doors with his little girl in his arms. 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. www.micheleharper.com. And I should just note to listeners that this involves a subject that will - well, may be disturbing to some. 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. Michele Harper. 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. And we use the same one. You tell a lot of interesting stories from the emergency room in this book. But that night was the first time Harper caught a glimpse of a future outside her parents house. The officers said we were to do it anyway. I mean, you say that her body had a story to tell. Dr. Michele Harper is a New Jersey-based emergency room physician whose memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, is available now. And I should just note again for listeners that there's some content here that might be disturbing. The N95s we use, there's been a recycling program. And you had not been in the habit of crying through a lot of really tough things in your life. She writes about the incident so we always remember that beneath the most superficial layer of our skin, we are all the same. HARPER: At that time, I saw my future as needing to get out and needing to create something different for myself. You want to just describe what happened here? This is the setting of Dr. Michele Harper's memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, which explores how the healing journeys of her patients intersect with her own. That has inspired her to challenge a system that she says regards healthcare providers as more disposable than their protective equipment. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Her memoir is "The Beauty In Breaking." I could wrap this up in 10 minutes, and then I could go home. Dr. Michele Harper. And it's not just her. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she attended Harvard, where she met her husband. He graduated from UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE in 1995. she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. It was crying out for help, and the liver test was kind of an intuition on your part. . For example, the face shield I talk about is different than the one we have now because we had a donation from an outside company. You grew up in an affluent family in what you describe as some exclusive neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. You went to private school. A graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, she has served as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. I was the only applicant and I was very qualified for the position, but they rejected me, leaving the position vacant. In medicine, theres no consensus that racism is a problem. [Read an excerpt from The Beauty in Breaking. ]. Photos of Harper the bride wearing her voluminous wedding gown on . So I replied, "Well, do you want to check? Dr. Michelle Harper, a New York Times Bestselling Author and Harvard graduate, will be the focus of a Monday, August 22 virtual interview with East Baton Rouge Parish (EBR) readers, and EBR . I ran to the room. He did not want to be in the ER. Michele Harper grew up in Washington, DC, knowing from a fairly young age that healing would be in her future. While she waited for her brother she watched and marveled as injured patients were rushed in for treatment, while others left healed. DAVIES: You know, you write in the book that you navigate an American landscape that claims to be post-racial when every waking moment reveals the contrary. I feel a responsibility to serve my patients. My ER director said that she complained. The Beauty in Breaking is Michele Harpers first book. And in that story and after - when I went home and cried, that was a moment where that experience allowed me to be honest. And it's a very easy exam. Thats why they always leave!. HARPER: Yes. 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. Michele Harper writes: I am the doctor whose palms bolster the head of the 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his brain. Monday, 8/22/2022 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm . 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. I am famously bad at social media. How are you? DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. 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. But it was a byproduct. So I explained to her the course of treatment and she just continued to bark orders at me. 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.. And so I left because that was too much to bear. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. So in that way, it's hard. DAVIES: Have things improved? She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. DAVIES: You know, I'm wondering if the fact that you spent so much of your childhood in a place where you didn't feel safe and there was no adult or professional that you encountered who could relieve that, who could rescue you, who could make you safe, do you think that that in some way made you a more empathetic doctor, somebody who is more inclined to find that person who is in need of help that they somehow can't quite identify or ask for? Penguin Random House/Amber Hawkins. Then I started the medical path, and it beat the words out of me. Dr. Harper received her BA in Psychology from Harvard University . That was a gift they gave me. No. Michele D. Thomas, MD Colon & Rectal Surgery. Her book, The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. We're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. The past few nights she's treated . 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. Harper writes about this concept when she describes her own survival. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, I read books from across the U.S. to understand our divided nation. They have 28 years of experience. . And it's a long, agonizing process, you know, administering drugs, doing the pumping. As she puts it, In life, too, even greater brilliance can be found after the mending., Who Saves an Emergency Room Doctor? Its a blessing, a good problem to have. Fax: 1-512-324-7555. Los Angeles. When youre Black in medicine, there are constant battles. 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. Michele Harper, 2020. It doesnt have to be this way of course. She looked fine physically. I love the discussion. So they brought him in because part of their legal work is to prove it. Did you feel more appreciated in the Bronx? I will tell you, though, that the alternative comes at a much higher cost because I feel that in that case, for example, it was an intuition. Sep 28. It wasnt the first time he was violent, and it wouldnt be the last. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to . And I remember thinking to myself, what could lead a person to do something so brutal to a family member? So I ran downstairs and called the police. Dr. Michele Harper is an emergency room physician and the author of The Beauty in Breaking, a memoir of service, transformation, and self-healing.In her talks, Dr. Harper speaks on how the policies and systemic racism in healthcare have allowed the most vulnerable members of society to fall through the cracks, and the importance of making peace with the past while drawing support from the present. Dr. Harper has 25 years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology. Let me reintroduce you. Photo: LaTosha Oglesby. A graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, she has worked as an ER doctor 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. How did you see your future then? Michele Harper, thanks so much for being here. I was horrified. This is FRESH AIR. 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. She spoke to me via an Internet connection from her home. And you wrote that before the recent protests and demonstrations, which have prompted a lot more focus on the nation's experience with slavery and racial injustice. . The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison All of Us research program collaborate to host a talk by Dr. Michele Harper. It's more challenging when that's not the case. But she wasn't waking up, so I knew I was going to have to transfer her anyway. You say that this center has the sturdy roots of insight that, in their grounding, offer nourishment that can lead to lives of ever-increasing growth. Apparently, Dr. Michele Sharkey has found love with none other than the brother of a fellow coworker, Dr. Emily Thomas. I don't know if the allegations against him were true. Now, of course, there are choices. And so then my brother became the target of violence from my father. 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.. That's depleting, and it's also rewarding to be of service. 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 . Harper looks each one in the eye. 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. 119 posts. Tell us what happened. I'm always more appreciated in the community and even within hospital systems. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Harpers crash course on the state of American health care should be a prerequisite for anyone awaiting a coronavirus vaccine. 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. I mean, it doesn't have to go that way. 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. HARPER: Oh, yeah, all the time. The pair married in Hawaii on December 10, 1992. 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. (The officers did not have a court order and the hospital administration confirmed Harper had made the correct call.) We'll continue our conversation in just a moment. (SOUNDBITE OF RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET'S "IBERIAN SUNRISE"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with Dr. Michele Harper. 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. She is affiliated with Saint Francis Medical Center. And it was a devastating moment because it just felt that there was no way out and that we - we identified with my brother as being our protector - were now all being blamed for the violence. I asked her nurse. Emergency room physician, Michele Harper, grew up in a complicated family. What was it like getting acclimated to that community and the effect it had on the patients that you saw? So if I had done something different, that would have been a much higher cost to me emotionally. She is an advocate of personal wellness and evolution as a foundation for collective liberation. One of the more memorable patients that you dealt with at the VA hospital was a woman who had served in Afghanistan, and you had quite a conversation with her. She's a veteran emergency room physician. HARPER: There are times and it's really difficult because we want to know. 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. The Beauty in Breaking tells the story of Dr. Harper, a female, African American, ER physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. 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. Certainly it was my safe haven when I could leave the home. 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. DAVIES: I don't want to dwell on this too much. So I hope that that's what we're embarking on. Recorded in Miami and Philadelphia. My trainee, the resident, was white. What she ultimately said to me after our conversation was, I just wanted to talk and now, after meeting with you, I feel better. She felt well enough to continue living. There's (laughter) - it did not grow or deepen. Dr. Harper is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial. Nope - not at all because different would mean structural change. ( 2014-04-12) Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet is an American television series on Nat Geo Wild. And my staff - I was working with a resident at the time who didn't understand. I'm the one who ends up standing up for them. August 28, 2020. Because if the person caring for you is someone who hears you, who truly understands you thats priceless. 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. ABOUT THE PROVIDER. And I felt that, in that way, I would never be trapped. "We met when we were 15," Mr. Leeb recently recalled . So it was a natural fit for me. Weve all seen the signs that say Thank You Health Care Heroes. How does Harpers memoir change how you think of those words? So it felt like there was nothing left to do but continue to live in silence because there was going to be no rescue. (An emergency room is a great equalizer, but only to an extent.) DAVIES: You described in the piece that you wrote about the mask that you wore over your face. She went on to attend Harvard, where she met her husband. 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. And my mother said, well, she didn't want to pursue charges if it meant my brother was going to be incarcerated. Harper's first 10 years practicing medicine from an ER in New York City to another in Philadelphia have taught her the . But the hospital, if I had not intervened, would have been complicit. In that way, it can make it easier to move on because it's hard work. So I started the transfer. She received a Bachelor of Science at Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Human Science and Doctorate from National College of Chiropractic. And there was - there was just something about it that made me more concerned. Coming up, Maureen Corrigan reviews "Mexican Gothic," a horror story she says is a ghastly treat to read. Angelina Jolie 's ex-girlfriend Jenny Shimizu also got married recently, tying the knot last week to socialite Michelle Harper. I mean, I feel that that is their mission. Her vitals were fine. And that description struck me. 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. Summary. And apart from this violation, this crime committed against her - the violation of her body, her mind, her spirit - apart from that, the military handled it terribly. That was just being in school. 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. It's your patients. Her story is increasingly relevant as the aftermath of the pandemic continues to profoundly affect the medical community. Dr. And then I got a call from the radiologist that while there was no pneumonia, she had several broken ribs, different stages of healing, so they happened at different times. All the stuff I used to do for self-care yoga, meditation, eating healthy Ive had to double down and increase clarity about my boundaries, she says. Welcome to FRESH AIR. She said no and that she felt safe. But, and perhaps most critically, people have to be held accountable when it comes to racism. Some salient memories that just remind me of the insecurity of it - there would always be some kind of physical violence. MICHELE HARPER: I'm - I feel healthy and fine. 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. micheleharpermd. And that continued until, I guess, your high school years, because you actually drove your brother to the emergency room. We know, in medicine, people can make their own decisions. And I felt that if I just left the room and didn't ask that I would be ignoring her pain. He was in no distress. And when they showed up, they said, well, I suppose we'll just arrest you both, meaning my father and my brother. It's everyone, at all times. HARPER: I do. You want to just describe what happened with this baby? I mean, there was the mask on your face. So we reuse it over and over again. D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. 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. So I could relate to that. Well, as the results came back one by one, they were elevated. We had frequent shifts together. 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. But that is the mission, should they choose to follow it. Series Image. And you're right. Michelle Harper's age is 44. But Im trying to figure out how to detonate my life to restructure and find the time to write the next book.. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. 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. Because she's yelling for help." Michele Harper is a female African American emergency room physician in an overwhelmingly male and white profession. Her Patients, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/books/the-beauty-in-breaking-michele-harper.html. 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. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. 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. Our guest today, Michele Harper, is a career ER doctor and one of roughly 2% of American physicians who are African American women. He refuses an examination; after a brief conversation in which it seems as if they are the only two people in the crowded triage area, she agrees (against the wishes of the officers and a colleague) to discharge him. And I would say, we have patients refuse evaluation in the ER all the time or change their mind, decide they want to leave. HARPER: Yes. Original release. I don't know what happened to her afterwards. Nobody in the department did anything for her or me. And I think that that has served me well. And you give a pretty dispiriting picture of the place in some ways. When we do experience racism, they often don't get it and may even hold us accountable for it. I didnt know the endgame. Their stories weigh heavily on my heart. D.C., in a complicated family, she attended Harvard, where she met her husband. Our hours have been cut, our pay has been cut because healthcare in America is a for-profit system. 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. She was a Black patient. Is there more protective equipment now? she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. June 11, 2021 10:14 AM PT. Shane, Dr. Michelle's spouse, is a fireman and the Deputy Conservation Officer. 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