


A Fullness of
Uncertain Significance:
Stories of Surgery, Clarity, and Grace
BRUCE H CAMPBELL, MD FACS

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Bruce Campbell MD
- Apr 12
- 4 min
Talking About the Book with Surgeons (and Others)
Dr. Campbell has had several wonderful opportunities to read from his book and have conversations about surgery, narrative, and reflection.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
The VA - A Book Reading in the Operating Room and a Few Memories
Dr. Campbell reminisces about some of the things that have--and have not--chaged at the VA over the past forty years.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
"The Short Coat Podcast" - "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" interview
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.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Nov 15, 2021
- 1 min
Tuesday 11/16/2021 at 12:00 CST - 15th Annual MCW Medical Humanities Lecture
Here is the link to join in for the 15th Annual MCW Medical Humanities Lecture. I promise to leave time for conversation.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Now, the hard part begins ...
Now, we will work to bring the book to a wider audience ...


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 28, 2021
- 1 min
Today is Release Day! 9/28/2021
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


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 26, 2021
- 1 min
Updated Book Launch Information - "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance"
Rita Charon, MD PhD says, "these stories will change lives."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 19, 2021
- 1 min
Book Launch Countdown!
Here are more details for the book launch next week. Tuesday 9/28/2021 live outdoor event. Wednedsay 9/29/2021 virutal event.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Rana Awdish, MD
“The reader understands how, even in the pressurized world of surgery, there are moments of intimacy filled with grace.”


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
Working on my “Doctor Handwriting”
Dr. Campbell take the privilege of signing books seriously.


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Danielle Ofri, MD PhD
"Eminently readable and richly satisfying."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Sep 3, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Julie Freischlag, MD, FACS
"Medical students and residents will be inspired by his life’s journey ... aspiring to their own joyful and meaningful lives in medicine."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Gayle Woodson, MD
"With compassion, humility, and shimmering prose, he shares the joys, pains, and somber responsibility of being a surgeon."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 28, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Peter Marty
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


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - K. Jane Lee, MD
"A warm, compassionate, and honest voice..."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 21, 2021
- 2 min
Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Kim Suhr, MFA
"These lean essays offer a glimpse behind the surgical drape to show what it’s like to be a cancer surgeon..."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
Advance praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - William Lydiatt, MD
"With elegant and engaging prose, Campbell beautifully expresses the honor it is to be a physician."


Bruce Campbell MD
- Aug 14, 2021
- 2 min
Advance praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Olivia Davies, MD
"His memoir of stories is sure to become a rite of passage for future doctors and patients alike."