I do hope you will join us for the fourth and final virtual book launch by HARP The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca) of Indigenous author Patricia Vickers’ beautiful and important publication about her triumphant healing from inter-cultural and inter-generational violence. For this final episode, Dr. Gabor Mate will be Patricia’s guest. Physician and much-published author Dr. […]
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Extracts from my new medical memoir
Professional Grief Show me the data that solemnity ever cured anything, Patch Adams, MD There’s a term for it. For the grief that caregivers experience when we lose one of our patients. We call it “professional grief”—a phrase that in its clinical dryness captures the all-too-rare acknowledgment of its very existence. We may be trained […]
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Virtual Book Launch of Singing to the Darkness
Dr. Patricia Vickers is the first Indigenous author to be published by our publishing house, HARP The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca). I first learned about Feast Hall writing style in her inquiry, Singing to the Darkness, in which Patricia includes monologues and meditations along with twenty of her original art pieces. Dr. Gabor Maté, author of […]
Yet another review of Blood Work!
This review comes from writer and media maven Denise Davies. Thank you for your generous words, Denise! This novel tells the story of Raig’s development of cancer and all that that entails. How this sixteen-year-old girl comes through a near-death experience, how she finds joy and healing through art and music, how she learns through […]
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Another Review of Blood Work
Blood Work: A Review by Adult Educator Leslee Larsen, December, 2019 I’m delighted to add another review of my YA novel, Blood Work, this one from adult educator Leslee Larsen, who captures the essence of the novel as a chance for what’s called transformative learning. As Leslee illustrates so well, ’Raig, the protagonist of Blood […]
“Blood Work” Reviews
“Blood Work” – New Reviews New York Magazine reports that over sixty percent of Young Adult (YA) books are being bought by people aged eighteen to forty-four. The original target readership for young adult literature—twelve to eighteen—amounts to less than twenty percent of purchasers. So I’m delighted to share with you these recent reviews of […]
A new review of “Journeys with 1000 Heroes
Here’s a very nice review from experienced book review writer and editor, Anne Boches… “Journeys with a Thousand Heroes: A Child Oncologist’s Story, by John Graham-Pole, MD, MRCP-UK As a boy of twelve, John Graham-Pole lost his mother to cancer. That loss and his vow to defeat the disease informed his career and his personal […]
Memoir – The Casket Article
Richard MacKenzie just did a very nice article in The Casket (our local newspaper) about my new memoir (see link below)… As well as the reading from “1000 Heroes” that I’m doing at The People’s Place library on September 27 (630-830pm with goodies to eat and drink), I’ll be doing an earlier one at Rosemary […]
My final exam – and my first child
Another extract from my memoir – meeting my first child patient in my Finals I’ve distinguished myself through four medical school years by never setting foot inside Barts Children’s Unit. At twenty-six years old, the very notion of sick children sends shivers through me, chilled a few more degrees by Sister Kenton’s […]
“Midder”
Here’s an extract from my newly published memoir, recalling my medical student days, when I first attended the delivery of a healthy baby. An awesome experience… After six months of professorial scholarship and seat-of-the-pants emergency medicine, I escape to sunnier climes, assigned for the month of July to my “midder”—midwifery—rotation at the North Middlesex Hospital […]