Hi Everyone!
I can’t believe that April 12 is actually here—pub date for Healing! The graphic below shows you my book events, which are open to the public (that means you!). You can find the appropriate links on my website. If you reach out to me over email during April it may take me longer than usual to write back, but I will respond eventually.
My conversation partners for these events are varied and should be a lot of fun. There’s Gabe Winant, History Professor at the University of Chicago, for my virtual event at Powell’s Bookstore tonight at 8pm ET. Gabe is a super smart expert on unions and health care and a doll of a human being:
I’ll be speaking with Liz Royal, part of SEIU health care in D.C., and fellow Algonquin Books author N. West Moss in New Jersey. Three physicians have also agreed to join me: Psychiatrist and author Damon Tweedy, Patrick White in palliative care, and prolific writer and general practitioner Danielle Ofri. In Boston I’ll partner with Dr. Barbara Reville, Nurse Practitioner and Director of Palliative Care Nursing at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Damon and I are doing a virtual event this Wednesday, April 13, at 1pm ET at Books & Books in Miami:
Articles to read
To get a foretaste of Healing, give my recent opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette a read. Or check out the jaunty review of Healing in the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan. It made me smile.
In other news
My son Conrad just got Covid after attending an event at U Michigan where proof of vaccination was required. He is doing OK, and thank goodness didn’t get that sick, but Covid is still hanging around, alas. I got my second Pfizer booster last week and while I’m glad for the extra protection, the side-effects were really strange. For about 36 hours, all I could do was sleep, so I slept.
Through this newsletter I will keep you posted on all things Healing, which includes my book, but also what I want our health care system to value. Patients are people, though modern health care often loses sight of that. We will find our way back to patients’ and clinicians’ humanity by focussing on compassion and what it means to help people heal.
Stay well, all—
Theresa
Theresa, I am reading and learning from Healing. Am also a nurse with cancer. I chose the treatment team based on their compassion and ability to see me as a person not a study subject. 4 years after treatment I have no evidence of cancer. May your book help many people on a cancer journey. Well done.
I am so happy and excited for you! I haven’t been able to download my copy to my kindle yet, because we’re traveling, but I will be home and able to start reading by Thursday. Enjoy your very full and interesting series of appearances!