Dan Shapiro,
PhD is Professor and Chair of the Humanities Department at Penn State College of Medicine. His first
book, Mom's Marijuana: Life,
Love and Beating the Odds, has been translated into Spanish,
Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. His second book is entitled Delivering
Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and
the Psychologist who Helped Her. As a result of expertise as someone
who has lived on "both sides of the bed", he is a consultant to the hit television series, "Grey's Anatomy" and has been featured in the
New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, ABCNEWS.COM, Salon.Com and a number
of other periodicals. A humorist who also uses drama, he speaks widely
to lay and professional groups.
In my favorite nonfiction books, the writer uses the same techniques as a novelist to make a true story come alive: great dialogue, a compelling storyline, fully developed characters. Delivering Doctor Amelia (Harmony) is one of these books...masterful storytelling that kept me hooked....Amelia's secret keeps the pages turning... This sort of fly-on-the-wall peek into a doctor-patient relationship makes Delivering Doctor Amelia my favorite sort of nonfiction. It's a well-written, suspenseful story for nosy people, like me. Amanda Eyre Ward, Austin Chronicle (Starred Review)....Shapiro's transcripts of his 29 professional sessions over a period of months with Dr. Amelia and the effects on both patient and analyst are a complex and emotionally engrossing interaction. Like Oliver Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), Shapiro presents this medical case and its professional analysis from a unique perspective that the public seldom shares. His book is highly recommended for its naked revelations of the medical and psychiatric professions and its truths about the human condition, our frailties, and our vulnerabilities. Library Journal Our Rating: A Shapiro clearly shines as a gifted physician and an expressive author. His writing ambles competently from page to page, dishing insights in carefully measured, melodic prose. The underlying message is one of human frailty, compassion and a better understanding that we all are somehow responsible for one another Verne Noel Jones, Rocky Mountain News You should pick up Delivering Doctor Amelia...you'll find yourself exploring with startling depth and immediacy and question of who shall heal the fallen physician. Ben Dickinson. Elle Magazine By plying his own hard-won wisdom at having been both terrified patient and uncertain healer, he succeeds not only in "delivering" Dr. Amelia but also a compassionate and stirring look at the inner lives of medical professionals. Lee Ann Sandweiss St. Louis Times Dispatch "What to Read Next: Delivering Doctor Amelia. By Dan Shapiro (Harmony Books, $24). The author of the wonderfully wry "Mom's Marijuana" (2000), a memoir of surviving cancer as a young man, is a psychologist who specializes in treating troubled physicians. The message is important: Doctors are not omnipotent. As human beings, they sometimes make mistakes and need healing of their own." Atlanta Journal Constitution In a choice reminiscent of Kay Redfield Jamison in "An Unquiet Mind," Shapiro writes about his own responses to Dr. Amelia's revelationsÉEach season, book after book rolls toward the public pregnant with ruin. Here is a rare story about healing that seems earned Karen Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer New and Notable: (Shapiro) preserves an important message: Doctors are human beings who falter sometimes and must find solace before they resume their lives. Shapiro's first book was the wonderful Mom's Marijuana. Anne Stephenson, Arizona Republic There
are a few gifted doctors and therapists - the neurologist Oliver
Sacks comes to mind - who manage to bring the narrative skills of
a novelist to their discussions of the disorders that plague the
human body and spirit. Dan Shapiro, a clinical psychologist who
teaches at the University of Arizona, appears to be one of them...
"Delivering Doctor Amelia" is a terrific read: deeply touching,
keenly analytical and warmly amusing. No reader will come away unaffected.
And no reader will fail to gain new understanding of the intricate
web of skills and attitudes - mind and heart - that constitute a
good doctor. Merrill
McLoughlin.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A fascinating
view of the interactions between a psychologist and his patient
during the therapeutic process....
Shapiro gives it a vivid and compelling immediacy. Kirkus
Reviews Honest
and perceptive, a very sensitive and engrossing medical memoir.
Publisher's
Weekly (Mom's Marijuana) is a very moving, amusing, and insightful book
A wry, moving memoir of suffering and survival... a hymn to hope. [read entire review]
Dr. Shapiro speaks from the heart with exceptional clarity. The response to Dr. Shapiro's presentations is invariably “outstanding!”
Nurses with greater than 20 years experience, the ones who have been around the block a few times are saying that Shapiro's was the best presentation they have ever heard! High praise from this bunch...they are very discerning. We have set the bar seriously high for next year!
... At the close of his presentation, Dr. Shapiro received a standing ovation and everyone wanted more. He was the highest rated speaker and the attendees are looking forward to him returning.
Comments such as “Dan Shapiro was the best presenter we've ever had,” make a training director's day!
Dan Shapiro reminded me of why I went into nursing in the first place. I laughed so hard, and then a second later I was crying. That bit about the night nurses was hysterical. Dan's gifted.
Once again, your talk to our medical students was one of the highest rated of the year
Our nurse's week celebration was terrific because Dan Shapiro came to Philadelphia to speak with us, he made our event!
I just received the evaluations from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Families and Health conference. I thought Dr. Shapiro would be interested in hearing that his evals overall were the highest quantitatively of all the plenary presenters the last five years (4.80 on a 5 point scale!) And we've had some impressive speakers!
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