BRUCE H CAMPBELL, MD FACS

Dr. Campbell has had several wonderful opportunities to read from his book and have conversations about surgery, narrative, and reflection.

Dr. Campbell reminisces about some of the things that have--and have not--chaged at the VA over the past forty years.

Listen in as Bruce Campbell discusses his new book on one of the premier sites aimed at premed and medical students, The Short Coat Podcast.

Here is the link to join in for the 15th Annual MCW Medical Humanities Lecture. I promise to leave time for conversation.

Now, we will work to bring the book to a wider audience ...

A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace is now available! The collection of sixty stories and essays captures moments that were meaningful and/or important to me over the course of my career, sharing what it means to be a physician, a surgeon, and a caregiver. I hope this book will be interesting and helpful to many groups, including premedical students, trainees, practicing physicians, workers in allied healthcare fields, patients, and thos

Rita Charon, MD PhD says, "these stories will change lives."

Here are more details for the book launch next week. Tuesday 9/28/2021 live outdoor event. Wednedsay 9/29/2021 virutal event.

“The reader understands how, even in the pressurized world of surgery, there are moments of intimacy filled with grace.”

Dr. Campbell take the privilege of signing books seriously.

"Eminently readable and richly satisfying."

"Medical students and residents will be inspired by his life’s journey ... aspiring to their own joyful and meaningful lives in medicine."

"With compassion, humility, and shimmering prose, he shares the joys, pains, and somber responsibility of being a surgeon."

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 Th

"A warm, compassionate, and honest voice..."

"These lean essays offer a glimpse behind the surgical drape to show what it’s like to be a cancer surgeon..."

"With elegant and engaging prose, Campbell beautifully expresses the honor it is to be a physician."

"His memoir of stories is sure to become a rite of passage for future doctors and patients alike."