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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Advance praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Carol Scott-Conner, MD PhD

The words “clarity” and “grace” take on heightened significance in this honest yet lyrical set of essays by Bruce Campbell. The immediacy and intensity of these stories immediately swept me into the consulting room and OR. I felt as if I were a privileged witness to an almost sacred encounter between surgeon and patient. Subtle language lays bare a primal

relationship. It is impossible to read this book and not be changed by the experience.

—Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and author of A Few Small Moments: Short Stories

From Dr. Campbell:

Dr. Scott-Conner is a powerhouse! I first met her at the University of Iowa at a conference on the intersection of narrative and medicine where I was surprised and encouraged to meet her as well as other accomplished surgeon-writers including Dr. Bud Shaw and the late Dr. Kimberly Ephgrave. In addition to having been chair of the University of Iowa's Department of Surgery, Dr. Scott-Conner is an accomplished writer of narrative works, research papers, and surgical textbooks. She is also the fiction editor of the Examined Life Journal. During her teaching sessions on writing, I sense that she brings her natural curiosity as well as her ability to focus on the technical aspects of her craft to bear on her writing. Is there anything she doesn't do well?

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Advance Praise for "A Fullness of Uncertain Significance" - Rita Charon, MD PhD

Dr. Bruce Campbell sets a new milestone for doctor-writers. As an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, he treats patients with the most advanced and aggressive cancers imaginable. Internists like me wonder how head and neck surgeons like him do it; this book gives me the answer. Dr. Campbell brings luminous sight to his work. His writerly gifts let him capture the delicate and the solemn, the tragic and the everyday dimensions of illness. Not a set of doctorly instructions (though instruct it does), A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace lays open the profound mysteries and truths and awe about this life of ours. These stories will change lives.

-Rita Charon, MD, PhD; Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Medicine; Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics; Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York City; Editor of Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

From Dr. Campbell:

Dr. Charon is the doyenne of Narrative Medicine, so having her look at my book was humbling. I met her at a conference at the University of Iowa several years ago and then again while completing a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine that she directs at Columbia University. Her work is at an entirely different level; her writing draws on her rich background in literature and the humanities. She is thoughtful, inquisitve, accomplished, and deeply insightful.

Dr. Charon's work has been truly groundbreaking and will, hopefully, change the education of future physicians and healthcare professionals into a more narrative-based and culturally-humble endeavor. Having her endorse my book is an honor.

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