Theresa Brown, PhD, MA, BSN, RN
Clinical nurse and author of The Shift, Critical Care, and Healing
Abstract: Theresa Brown is a nurse and writer, published in The American Journal of Nursing and JAMA. She is a frequent columnist in the New York Times and the author of three books. Her third, Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient, published on April 12, chronicles her journey, from the mammogram appointment that would change her life to her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Despite years working as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown is constantly surprised by the lack of compassion she experiences during her treatment. And she can’t help reflecting on her time caring for patients. Did she treat them with the dignity and respect that she now craves? What could she have done to make other people’s suffering even a little bit easier?
As part of its ongoing collaboration with City of Asylum, the Center for Bioethics & Health Law is co-sponsoring her reading.
View online here.
Co-sponsored by City of Asylum and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law
Location and Address
Online and in-person at City of Asylum, 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212