Rachel Jones presents Grief on the Front Lines: Reckoning with Trauma, Grief, and Humanity in Modern
Schedule
Fri Jun 10 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
Third Place Books Ravenna | Seattle, WA
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"Rachel Jones takes us into the lives of the remarkable men and women who stand with us at times of loss and death and brings their own pain to life. A harrowing and unforgettable book." —Michael ShapiroThird Place Books welcomes local author and journalist Rachel Jones to our Ravenna store! Jones will be discussing her book Grief on the Front Lines: Reckoning with Trauma, Grief, and Humanity in Modern Medicine, a timely exploration of how healthcare workers deal with the weight of their profession and how the system has failed to support them when it is most needed. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance.
Copies of Grief on the Front Lines will be available for purchase at the store. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
About Grief on the Front Lines. . .
For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee—a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers.
Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a life-changing diagnosis, grieving futility in the face of a no-win situation. The emotional burden placed on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners is profound...and yet their suffering is often displaced, dismissed, or unrecognized.
Here, Rachel Jones breaks the silence, daring to imagine a future where every healthcare worker is provided with the right tools to process grief, the space to integrate trauma, and—most importantly—the knowledge that they’re not alone. Drawing from the latest research and more than 100 interviews with healthcare professionals across different specialties, backgrounds, and institutions, Jones identifies how US medicine fails its workers—and how it can do better.
Speaking with urgency about the systemic shortcomings that contribute to widespread depression, burnout, suicide, and PTSD among physicians and nurses—a culture of stoicism, the pressure of 80-hour workweeks—Grief on the Front Lines shares the stories of everyday healthcare heroes and offers a glimpse into the educational programs, retreats, therapeutic offerings, and peer support networks already building a hopeful new culture of medicine that cares for its own.
Praise for Grief on the Front Lines . . .
"This book—birthed during the pandemic of the century—is filled with painful truths about the American healthcare system that sound the clarion call for change."
—Jessica Zitter, MD, author of Extreme Measures
"Urgent, powerful, healing. US healthcare has reached a crisis point where those who care for others need care for themselves to recover from epidemic levels of burnout. Grief on the Front Lines shows how that caring work can and must be done."
—Theresa Brown, PhD, RN, author ofThe Shift
"Grief on the Front Lines is a clarion call for a more compassionate approach to medicine—not only for our patients, but for ourselves as medical professionals."
—Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, co-author of Compassionomics
Rachel Jones is a freelance writer whose nonfiction has appeared in Time magazine, The Lancet, The Delacorte Review, Scientific American, The Antigonish Review, Columbia Journalism Review and many other publications. She obtained a BA in Sociology and Studio Art from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. After earning her MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Jones spent more than four years as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, including 1.5 years as a correspondent for The Associated Press. More recently, she has been exploring a longstanding interest in death and dying as a staff writer for SevenPonds, a website and online magazine that informs the public about a wide array of issues related to end of life. Jones, whose book Grief on the Front Lines is supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is the recipient of a Pulitzer traveling fellowship, an Overseas Press Club Foundation scholarship and a Logan Nonfiction fellowship.
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