{"product_id":"first-do-no-harm-laura-brylawski-miller-9780997262957","title":"First, Do No Harm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Robert Fagles' translation of Vergil, Aeneas, \u003cbr\u003e contemplating the Trojan War cries out, \"The\u003cbr\u003e world is a world of tears, and the burdens of\u003cbr\u003e mortality to touch the heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e Laura Brylawski-Miller intuits the lacrimae\u003cbr\u003e rerum, the tears in things throughout her poetry, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand it is not only a result of the classic education\u003cbr\u003e she received in her native Italy, but a\u003cbr\u003e guiding insight that directs her view of the world, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe shape of her soul. Like the Buddha of\u003cbr\u003e Sokkuram, she is stunned by the suffering she\u003cbr\u003e sees in the world and is left with the only possible\u003cbr\u003e response, compassion for the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e Compassion in her, however, is not naiveté. This\u003cbr\u003e intuition is perhaps what first led her to medicine, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe sensitivity for the pain of others, the need to\u003cbr\u003e heal, even when that healing process means\u003cbr\u003e debriding dead tissue with her poetic scalpel.\u003cbr\u003e \"First, do no harm,\" the Hippocratic oath\u003cbr\u003e demands, but sometimes it requires severe\u003cbr\u003e measures as every surgeon knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Brylawski-Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0997262958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780997262957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poets Choice Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Laura Brylawski-Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483836100863,"sku":"9780997262957","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39e567f6-fab0-4229-ad31-14199950213d.jpg?v=1778040898","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-do-no-harm-laura-brylawski-miller-9780997262957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}