Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert

We hear a lot about Grit these days; here's a book person who exemplifies it. Elliott had—and took advantage of—opportunities that none of us will ever have: teaching to (and learning from!) two isolated cultures, sheepherding in the remote cellphoneless 1970s southwest, avoiding burnout despite years in a grueling emergency-medicine environment. She kept good notes, and we're fortunate that she chooses to share them.

This memoir is especially beautiful in the post-2016 U.S. atmosphere of intolerance, hatred, and selfishness. Elliott sets an example we can all learn from.