Analysis Of Michele Harper's The Beauty In Breaking

The book that I chose to read is “The Beauty in Breaking” by Michele Harper, a talented African American emergency room physician. In this memoir, Michele shares a new story in each chapter, each of which having a unique message. I chose to analyze Michele in one of her trials that appears in chapter five. At this point in the story, Harper is a chief resident at Mercy Hospital in the South Bronx.
Harper was quietly entering patient triages on her computer, when a young man with handcuffs around his wrists was brought in by the police. He was being violated and handled aggressively by the police officers. They demanded that the man was to be examined. Michele had seen countless of these kinds of situations and she had hoped that it would have

She decided that she would wait until she was done with her work until she would go over and handle the situation. At this time, Michele was also working with a resident, Lauren, (who I should mention was a white female) who was under her supervision. The officers kept pushing the man against his will to get checked out. The man kept repeating the phrases, “I ain’t doin’ nuthin’,” and “I didn’t do nuthin’.” (95) They then called for a doctor and Lauren hurried on over. Michele reminisced on how she had just needed 170 more seconds to finish entering her work. She also knew that she had to give her inferior, Lauren, a chance to attempt to offer “effective mediation.” (96) I personally would think that she had not chosen to get up at this moment for a multitude of reasons and I can kind of relate to it a bit. First, she was extremely tired; working day and night shifts, difficult patients, loads to remember, teaching other residents, etc, I would have wanted to sit in my chair for at least five more minutes too. I also think that she would have wanted to see how the situation would have played out a bit. She did mention that she was waiting for the

Michele finally got up to face the crowd after staring at the scene for a few more seconds. When she came over to ask questions, there was complete silence. Dominic, the prisoner answered her questions without difficulty. We found out that Dominic was in the ER that day for allegedly swallowing bags of drugs. Michele asked him a couple of necessary questions and told him about how swallowing drugs was dangerous, but she in no way violated his space or forced him to comply with the officers that demanded he take a test. Instead, she argued that it was against the law for her to forcibly examine him without consent, and even brought up other examples when it’s relevant in the medical world. Lauren however, was extremely distraught by this and decided to give a call to Hospital Ethics. Michele then thought back on instances where one's body didn’t really belong to them. She thought about Dr. J. Marion Sims, who conducted experimental surgeries on enslaved women, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, when for forty years, black men men were abducted to be “treated”, but instead were experimented on and watched, Dr. Albert Kligman who “biopsied, burned and