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Bruce H. Campbell, MD FACS
Retired Head & Neck Surgeon | Author | Essayist

Bruce Campbell, MD FACS
A Fullness of Uncertain Significance
A Fullness of Uncertain Significance - Norbert Blei August Derleth Award

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Dr. Campbell’s reflections will resonate with those who treat cancer patients as well as those who have had cancer themselves. Medical students and residents will also be inspired by his life’s journey as a surgeon and teacher, aspiring to their own joyful and meaningful lives in medicine.



—Julie Ann Freischlag, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), DFSVS, CEO Wake Forest Baptist Health, CAO Atrium Health, Dean of the Wake Forest School of Medicine, and 2021-2022 President of the American College of Surgeons.



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From Dr. Campbell:


Dr. Freischlag is the real deal! Despite her meteoric rise through the ranks of academic medicine, she remains a warm, down-to-earth, and generous servant leader. She focuses on the wellness of her teams. She has a laser focus on diversity, inclusion, and equity. Even while serving as chief of vascular surgery at UCLA, surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins, dean and vice provost at UC Davis and, finally, CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Health, she has continued to cherish opportunities to mentor others. She has a long list of being "the first person to...", many of which are documented in her own Wikipedia page. She is one-of-a-kind.


Julie and I were medical school classmates and we have been friends ever since. I was honored that she was able to find a few moments in her overwhelmingly busy schedule to read my book.






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In this rich collection of stories and essays, Dr. Campbell reflects on his years of caring for patients and training young doctors to follow in his footsteps. With compassion, humility, and shimmering prose, he shares the joys, pains, and somber responsibility of being a surgeon.



Gayle Woodson, MD, surgeon, educator, and award winning author of After Kilimanjaro and Leaving La Jolla



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From Dr. Campbell :


Dr. Woodson was one of my otolaryngology role models long before she also became one of my creative writing role models. We met in the 1980s when she was a junior faculty member at the Baylor College of Medicine and I was a head and neck surgical fellow across the street at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She has had a wonderful and distinguished career as a teacher, surgeon, department chair, and national leader. Her influence and prominence within our specialty was recently recognized when she was named to the inaugural class of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Foundation's Hall of Distinction. She is also a role model in global surgery, having worked with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center to establish only the second otolaryngology residency in Tanzania.


I learned of her writing a few years ago and have been impressed with the breadth of her work and her sparkling imagination. I was honored to have her read my book.





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Bruce Campbell is no average surgeon and no ordinary writer. He takes the excellence of his medical trade and weaves the challenges, exhilarations, and tough decisions of surgery

into beautiful prose. Here is one who clearly doesn’t reduce patients to a diagnosis, but who sees them as whole persons worth getting to know. The chapters in this book are like

windows into the humility and generosity of a man I’d like to have as my personal physician.



Peter W. Marty, author of The Anatomy of Grace and editor/publisher of The Christian Century



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From Dr. Campbell:

Peter Marty is a talented, insightful, spiritual, and inspiring writer and human being. We first met in 2001 at Holden Village, a renewal center in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. During a session there, Peter asked those of us gathered to consider the difference between "healing" and "cure." His question still resonates with me, and I have spent the last two decades trying to discern a response.


He is a gifted, very busy parish pastor, writer, speaker, and editor. I was delighted that he was able to find time to read and respond to the book.




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