A review by katreads2022
Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic by Martina Scholtens

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

Astonishing must-read. This book is profoundly heartbreaking but very much necessary. The writing is beyond words; I have never read a book of medical non-fiction with prose so beautiful. I greatly admire Dr. Schlotens’ reflections and resolve described in this memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail