Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care

If you work in the busy health care field, this is a must. It reminds us of why we do what we do.

This is a joyful book, revealing wisdom and compassion in the dailyness of life. The photographs are deeply evocative, and each story is a small prayer for deeper kindness and understanding, not just for health care professionals, but for all of us.

I have been a nurse for many years and my first love has always been psychiatric nursing. For the past couple of years I have been a clinical instructor for nursing students during their psychiatric rotation. Most students find the psych rotation difficult. They struggle with how to relate to patients with whom communication is at least bizarre, if not seemingly impossible. Much of my role as their clinical instructor is helping students find their heart as a nurse. Once they do, they find implementation of therapeutic communication skills to be much less onerous. My philosophy of care over a forty year career in nursing resonates in this book. I will be giving a copy of Daily Miracles to every one of my nursing students as they finish their clinical rotation. Thank you for publishing Daily Miracles. Every nurse and nurse-in-training should read it. Judy Ward, RN, MSN, MFT

The book is beautiful throughout. I read it, cried several times, and fell asleep happy/sad/fully alive. This book is a gift. Thanks for bringing it into the world. Marty Kaplan, Ph.D.

This slender spriral bound book is filled with poignant and true stories plus gorgeous pictures and could be carried around in a pocket, which would be a good idea. It shows how healing really happens. Good care involves good systems and good education, of course, and yet is based on good people who go an extra mile to help or to hold a hand or to pay attention to intuition or to think deeply and connect with patients, with their own soul, and with each other. Daily Miracles, with its powerful vignettes, annotations, and masterful photography is both inspired and inspiring. Every nurse, nursing student, nursing faculty member, and family member should have one. Every physician, medical student, and medical faculty member and family member should have it, too. You, too. Linda Hawes Clever MD