After a quarter of a century learning and practicing medicine, Dr. Jean Robey compiles a collection of inspired and inspiring stories to share the art of medicine. A practitioner of Narrative Medicine, Dr. Robey curated her first collection of very relatable life journeys to salvage the precious physician-patient relationship, the dedicated but burnt-out physician, and the ethos of medicine. Mortality is our fate and in that common thread is humanity desperately clinging on to be heard and to find help. Her poetic language puts the reader into intimate rooms and settings that give empathy a new approach. Dr. Robey gently exchanges vulnerabilities for clarity and common ground. Death becomes a background for betterment, a kind of closure on all things that happened to us, by our hand, and often without our deliberate efforts. At the most tragic of moments, Dr. Robey weaves the most elegant and heartwarming tales. In the end, she challenges being alive with truly living and dying with truly embracing greatness coming to an end.
Although her efforts are to make Narrative Medicine teachable, coachable, and sustainable in physician practices, Dr. Robey invites all readers to an equinox not many have given such voice to.
