An emergency room doctor who feels deep compassion for her patients and their problems, many of which are not medical issues. Part of her ability to empathize is rooted in her own troubled beginning. Abused as a child and living in a family with deep and violent problems, she realizes how easy it is to hide her turmoil from others. Once when she called the police, they were going to arrest her brother even though he had been fighting their father to keep their mother safe. In the end, no charges are filed. Now as a doctor in the ER, the level of care she is responsible for is short term but that does not stop her from getting patients to open up to her and for her to appreciate the differences and individual struggles of the people she deals with. I was deeply moved by this memoir - a times a little uneven but overall an interesting experience. Nicole Lewis does a wonderful job with the narration.
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