All of her novels have been New York Times Best Sellers.

She has won two Waldenbooks Award for bestselling fiction. She has won two Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal Romance Writers PRISM Award. She feels that she loves each one equally.įor those looking to properly pronounce her name, it is like Madeira (the wine) but with an s at the end of it. She does not have a favorite book that she has written, she feels this question is a lot like choosing a favorite kid. She started writing her first novel at the age of 21, and has not looked back since then. She lives with her husband and cat in the state of Kentucky. It is a career change she has never regretted.Author Teresa Medeiros was born around the year 1962, and before writing novels, she worked as a nurse. Becoming a mom led Theresa to leave academia and pursue nursing. She lectures nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life.

Theresa's BSN is from the University of Pittsburgh, and during what she calls her past life she received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. It chronicles her initial year of nursing and has been adopted as a textbook in Schools of Nursing across the country. Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between is her first book. Theresa has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR’s Fresh Air. Theresa has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times and her writing has appeared on CNN.com, and in The American Journal of Nursing, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Her book, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, was a New York Times Bestseller. It explores her diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer in the context of her own nursing work. Her third book- Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient-will be available April 2022. Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, is a nurse and writer who lives in Pittsburgh. A must-read for all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system. Why is she expected to wait over a long weekend to hear the results of her cancer tests if they are ready? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? Where is the empathy from caregivers? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that anyone labeled a “difficult” patient risks getting worse care.Īs she did in her book The Shift, Brown draws us into her work with the unforgettable details of her daily life-the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the frustrated patients-but from her new perch as a patient, she also takes a look back with rare candor at some of her own cases as a nurse and considers what she didn’t know then and what she could have done better. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in the medical maze-just as so many of us have. She brings us along with her from the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal story about breast cancer in Healing. When an oncology nurse is diagnosed with cancer, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, and angry patient she’s ever encountered: herself.

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