After fifty years of teaching and practicing medicine at four universities, British-trained medical doctor John Graham-Pole pays heartfelt tribute to the nursing profession in Grace Notes. Reflecting on his earliest teaching experiences, he writes: “Two nurses—one very senior and one very junior—became my first teachers during my apprenticeship in the art and science of caring for those in need.” Grace Notes is an important, necessary, and deeply affectionate reminder of the profound and lasting impact nurses have on both their patients and colleagues.
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John Graham-Pole is a British-trained physician, educator, and author with over fifty years of experience in pediatric oncology, palliative care, and medical teaching. He has taught and practiced at four universities and is known for his compassionate approach to medicine and storytelling. John’s work highlights the human side of healthcare, emphasizing the vital roles of both the nursing profession and the creative arts in medicine. John retired to live with his wife Dorothy Lander in Antigonish, where they both founded and run HARP Publishing.
Dr. Laurie Gottlieb, Professor of Nursing at McGill University and author of Strengths-Based Nursing, says in her Foreword: “Dr. Graham-Pole is a gifted storyteller. Each story is vivid and specific in detail, evoking a reaction both visceral and cognitive. This book brims with wisdom and insights that guide, teach, inspire, and point the way to becoming the best one aspires to be. Dr. Graham-Pole has brought out of hiding this aspect of medicine’s hidden curriculum by acknowledging the impact of nurses in shaping a doctor’s identity and how they choose to practice their profession.
Tilda Shaloff, author of A Nurse’s Story—Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit speaks of John’s memoir as “a homage to the profession of nursing. These laudatory portraits include touching moments and tense encounters with nurses unafraid to speak up and question a doctor’s judgment. John offers this prayer: “We can only hope there will be nurses like the ones portrayed in Grace Notes for us and our loved ones when our time of need comes.”
$22.95 paperback
9781990137419
6 x 9 | 114 page
