Rise After Silence: An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her

At 5 a.m. in the emergency department, Dr. Anne Aspler is the physician treating patients in crisis. She collects forensic evidence from sexual assault survivors. She sets the shattered bones of domestic abuse victims. But beneath the white coat, she is wrestling with a crisis of her own.

Anne's father is a convicted serial rapist. Her mother is lost to severe schizophrenia, hoarding, and the streets. Raised amid religious fundamentalism, foster care, and poverty, Anne ran in the opposite di...