I spent most of my life believing that if I worked hard enough, I could find my way through almost anything. Then I got sick.
Severe gastrointestinal illness eventually left me dependent on IV nutrition to survive and forced me to walk away from my pediatric palliative care fellowship. With nowhere left to push, I began an unexpected journey inward through journaling, meditation, prayer, faith, and self-forgiveness.
Today, I’m back practicing pediatrics and am the author of The Sick Doctor: A Memoir of Losing Everything and Finding My Way Back. I write about chronic illness, medicine, faith, healing, and the hope that our stories may not be finished yet.
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The Sick Doctor
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A Memoir of Losing Everything and Finding My Way Back
When illness changed everything, I went from doctor to patient - and was forced to imagine a life very different from the one I had planned.
The Sick Doctor is my memoir, covering illness, identity, hope and finding your way back when dealing with chronic illness.
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A different perspective on what it means to heal
I've lived through medicine on both sides of the hospital bed – first as a physician, then as a patient when my life was changed by illness.
I speak about what those experiences taught me about hope, healing, identity, and the way we care for ourselves through chronic illness.
