Theresa Brown, author of HEALING - an in-person Boswell event

2559 North Downer Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53211

20 April, 2022

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Theresa Brown, author of HEALING - an in-person Boswell event Boswell Book Company hosts an evening with Theresa Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift and Critical Care, for a conversation about her new book, in which the caregiver becomes the patient as she offers a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal account of her experience of breast cancer. Cosponsored by ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Brown brings us along with her from the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in the medical maze - just as so many of us have. Where is the empathy from caregivers? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being labeled a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care. As she did in The Shift, Brown draws us into her work with the unforgettable details of her daily life - the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the frustrated patients – but from her new perch as a patient, she also takes a look back with rare candor at some of her own cases as a nurse and considers what she didn’t know then and what she could have done better. A must-read for fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms, and all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system. Theresa Brown, RN, has been a contributor to The New York Times, and her writing appears in CNN.com, The American Journal of Nursing, and in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR's Fresh Air. She received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Purchase your copy of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient at https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9781643750699. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.