Healers Write, Writers Heal

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Poems and short essays on the themes of burnout as a woman in medicine, learning to use the wisdom of the body, and the healing power of writing.

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About Deborah Bayer

I'm working on a memoir about how being a doctor showed me how to tell the truth kindly. ROPE MADE OF BANDAGES is my first poetry collection, Finishing Line Press, March 2023.

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