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Espiner, Emma,

There's a cure for this : a memoir / Dr Emma Espiner. - Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. - 191 pages ; 24 cm

"The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Espiner"--Publisher information. "“I don't know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking about how the tohu, once awarded, can never be taken back. There are few things in life that emphatic. Better not fuck it up. ”From award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner comes this striking and profound debut memoir Encompassing whānau, love, death, ’90s action movies and scarfie drinking, There";s a cure for this is Espiner's own story, from a childhood spent shuttling between a ‘purple lesbian state house and a series of man-alone rentals’ to navigating parenthood on her own terms; from the quietly perceived inequities of her early life to hard-won revelations as a Māori medical student and junior doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic. Clear, irreverent and beautiful, this book offers a candid and moving examination of what it means to be human when it seems like nothing less than superhuman will do."--Back cover.

ISBN: 9780143776857 0143776851

Subjects--Personal Names:
Espiner, Emma.
Espiner, Emma--Career in medicine.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physicians (General practice)--New Zealand--Biography
Medicine.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.

Dewey Class. No.: 920 ESP