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Harman offers her personal and professional trials she experienced as a nurse-midwife, as well as the intimate stories of her patients. Nobody writes with more candor and compassion about women's woes and women's triumphs than nurse-midwife Patricia Harman.--Sara Pritchard.

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The many moving stories of the women that Patricia Harman cares for as a nurse-midwife add up to a remarkable account of a life spent listening, helping, and taking care. Inviting us into her clinic in rural West Virginia, she shows us the joys and sorrows of listening to women's stories and attending to their bodies, and she leads us through the complicated life of a healer who is profoundly shaped by her patients and their journeys. --Perri Klass, author of The Mercy Rule and Treatment Kind and Fair <br> Nobody writes with more candor and compassion about women's woes and women's triumphs than nurse-midwife Patricia Harman. Her behind-the-exam-room-door memoir is a bittersweet valentine to every woman-young and old-who has ever donned that thin blue cotton gown, to every dedicated healthcare provider, and to every husband-wife medical team. I couldn't put The Blue Cotton Gown down. --Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots and Lately <br> This luminescent, ruthlessly auth

Harman comes across as a wonderful, empathic friend and listener, and the stories she tells here, intertwined with her own life story, are personal and moving. A vivid and detailed picture of the health-care system in the United States today, from the perspective of one caring, intelligent, and hard-working professional. Highly recommended for public and medical libraries.

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