Rising from the Dead

Written by Suzanne Humphries MD

A doctor defies harmful policies, facing backlash and finding unexpected peace.

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416 pages· 116,112 words

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A doctor navigates the rigid medical system, realizing harmful policies threaten her patients. Taking a stand leads to isolation and despair. In 2011, she discovers solace through an unexpected friendship, challenging the norms and questioning the true impact of medical practices. Will her journey inspire change or deepen the divide?

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This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor’s path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system’s standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and ostracism by the authorities and her peers in the system. In 2011, depressed and deflated, life was difficult in all directions . . . until she found peace through an unexpected path and a new friend. The co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History brings you her entertaining autobiography, which will surprise you and have you wondering if your own doctor could be inadvertently threatening your health.

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