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After a quarter of a century learning and practicing medicine, Dr. Jean Robey compiles a collection of inspired and inspiring stories to share the art of medicine. A practitioner of Narrative Medicine, Dr. Robey curated her first collection of very relatable life journeys to salvage the precious physician-patient relationship, the dedicated but burnt-out physician, and the ethos of medicine. Mortality is our fate and in that common thread is humanity desperately clinging on to be heard and to find help. Her poetic language puts the reader into intimate rooms and settings that give empathy a new approach. Dr. Robey gently exchanges vulnerabilities for clarity and common ground. Death becomes a background for betterment, a kind of closure on all things that happened to us, by our hand, and often without our deliberate efforts. At the most tragic of moments, Dr. Robey weaves the most elegant and heartwarming tales. In the end, she challenges being alive with truly living and dying with truly embracing greatness coming to an end. Although her efforts are to make Narrative Medicine teachable, coachable, and sustainable in physician practices, Dr. Robey invites all readers to an equinox not many have given such voice to.

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Jean Robey has been a practicing nephrologist in Arizona since 2006. She is an Arizona Flinn Scholar Class of 1992 and a graduate of the University of Arizona College Medicine in Tucson as a Dean Scholar. She attended the Medical University of South Carolina for Surgical Internship, Internal Medicine Residency, and Nephrology Fellowship. She is a professor of Narrative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Nephrology. She mentors prospects to medicine and medical students seeking residency training. She is now section leader for the Department of Nephrology at an Internal Medicine residency program in Surprise, Arizona. She writes prose and poetry and her work has led to collaborations with multiple artists. In November 2025, her collaboration with local artist Marshall Shore @hiphistorian through an opportunity with Artist + Researcher Phoenix (ARx) will be on exhibit at the Arizona Science Center. This exhibit will be a artistic rendition of Narrative Medicine. Her hope is to bring Narrative Medicine through her stories into broader light as a coachable practice for physicians in training and to address burnout for established physicians given the inevitable burnout that comes with decades of practicing medicine with deep commitment. To the greater audience, she hopes the stories will provide insight, validation, and a kind of goalpost for intimate physician-patient encounters. ""She looked at me like no one had ever listened or loved her before,"" wrote Dr. Robey. When not running around busy addressing medically complex problems, Dr. Robey enjoys traveling, cruising, cooking, reading, playing with her pets, and getting together with family. She and her husband Kirk have called Arizona their forever home. She is extremely proud of her family's evolution after arriving in America and of her children's future born of that opportunity.

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