Ava Finds Time

Download or read book Ava Finds Time written by Ann Colbert MD and published by Ann Colbert. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This semi-autobiographical fiction, written by a hospice doctor, describes the uneasy balance between a health provider's personal and professional life. Using flashbacks, touching patient encounters and the sometimes sardonic notes Ava takes while reading a medical dictionary from cover to cover, the reader lives through one eventful year in the young doctor's life and watches as the delicate balance falls apart. Braided together with the doctor's story is that of a musician friend, Rosella, who has lost her brother. With the support of family, community, and friends, Ava is able to emerge on the other side of grief and eventually finds time in both a temporal and literal sense. This book is a good read for those working in care giving, health related or otherwise. And for those who know the heartache of grief.