Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Kim Suhr, MFA

Humorous and humble, serious and sublime, these lean essays offer a glimpse behind the surgical drape to show what it’s like to be a cancer surgeon over the course of a long, rewarding career. From Campbell’s first invitation into the “inner sanctorum” of the O.R. as a nurse’s aide while in college, through tender interactions with patients, to his projections about the profession when he is long gone, this smart, sensitive surgeon illustrates how doctors can listen to, care for, and learn from their patients. He courageously goes to the “hard places” as well as sharing those special moments that make it all worthwhile. Early in the collection, Campbell writes, “Besides being a surgeon, I am also a human being.” This beautiful book is about both.

—Kim Suhr, MFA, author of Nothing to Lose; Director of Red Oak Writing

From Dr. Campbell:

A Fullness of Uncertain Significance would never have made it to the finish line without the many talents of Kim Suhr. I joined Red Oak Writing, of which she is the director, at the point when I was just starting to think about compiling essays into a book. I met many of the "Red Oak Folk," whose experiences shaped my own, whose honest critiques of my writing served to improve my work, and whose own writing inspired me. Kim also agreed to facilitate a writers group, The Moving Pens, on the Medical College of Wisconsin campus that helped me shape new work and pushed me to complete the publishing journey.

Kim read the collection when it was ready for the first edits. She gave me advice based on her own publishing experience. When it was time, she encouraged me to contact Shannon Ishizaki at Ten16 Press. She has been supportive at every step.

Asking her to be one of my advance readers was a no-brainer! She is a gem.

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Advance praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - William Lydiatt, MD

In lucid and succinct vignettes, Dr. Campbell illuminates the myriad of emotions and sensations that accompany a life in surgery. These stories of persistence, camaraderie, shame, grief, guilt, and regret are told with a deep humility that springs from a

vantage point of experience. These ideas serve as the springboard to discuss unique, personal insights whose wisdom is of import to anyone in the healing profession. With elegant and engaging prose, Campbell beautifully expresses the honor it is to be a physician.

—William Lydiatt, MD, Chief Medical Officer Nebraska Methodist and Women’s Hospitals and Professor of Surgery, Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska

From Dr. Campbell:

Dr. Lydiatt is a renaissance person, a brilliant head and neck surgeon, and an enthusiastic supporter of the medical humanities. In addition to his extraordinarily busy schedule as a compassionate and accomplished cancer surgeon, he is a national leader in cancer policy. He is also a faculty member in the University of Nebraska Omaha Medical Humanities program where he has teamed with others, such as poet Ted Kooser, painter and portraiture artist Mark Gilbert, and poet/writer Steve Langan to explore the places where the arts and medicine intersect. I was delighted when he was willing to read my book.

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Advance praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Olivia Davies, MD

“Over the years, I have made an uneasy truce with failure,” says Campbell in the opening pages of his debut anthology, and yet his stories are anything but. Captivating, heart-wrenching, inspiring—he chooses his words as meticulously as he conducts his surgeries. And it’s just like a surgeon to keep you up in the middle of the night. “One more story,” you’ll tell yourself, but with Campbell’s reflections, it’s hard to stop. There’s a familiar ease with which he flourishes his pen; everything falls away, and it’s almost as if you’re sitting across the table from him as he recalls. You laugh when he laughs, you cry when he cries, and you wait as he waits. His memoir of stories is sure to become a rite of passage for future doctors and patients alike, enjoyable little tunes that all hum together in a harmony of sound. Turning the last page of Campbell’s novel, I succumb to my own “fullness of uncertain significance”—I have been charged to seek meaning, to reflect, to sit in the silence of his reverberating truths.

—Olivia Davies, MD, poet, writer, and dermatology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital

From Dr. Campbell:

I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Davies when she was a medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She was actively engaged in the humanities throughout her time in Milwaukee, served as an associate editor to the Kern Transformational Times newsletter, and was the driving force behind MCW's Common Read, the first time that the entire institution read and discussed a single book. She is an exceptionally gifted writer and leader. Despite my best efforts to convince her to become an otolaryngologist, she is on her way to becoming an outstanding dermatologist in the Harvard Combined Dermatology Training Program. Follow her at @oliviamdavies and https://www.instagram.com/livtd/ because, if for no other reason, she tried to explain social media to me.

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