Lives on Brown Cards:

A Physician’s Unexpected Journey.

A young doctor learns that true healing begins not with data, but with seeing the person behind the numbers—especially when she becomes the patient.

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Praise

Lives on Brown Cards is a powerful reflection of a young physician’s residency at Grady Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where I now operate. On each brown card were written critical stats and observations that would shape the lessons and the trajectory of Dr. Schneider’s career and the unfolding AIDS epidemic. This is a deeply human memoir of courage, conscience and the forces that have reshaped the entire healthcare workforce.

— DR. SANJAY GUPTA, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine, Emmy Award-winning Journalist, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, and Bestselling Author

“Set at Atlanta’s Grady Hospital during the early AIDS epidemic, a young doctor learns—often imperfectly—the difference between treating disease and truly caring for people. Compassionate and unflinching, Diane Schneider's memoir reads like a novel and lingers long after the last page.”

— EMILY GIFFIN, New York Times Bestselling Novelist

About Diane L. Schneider, MD

Physician - Writer, Expert in Bone Health & Osteoporosis

As a physician with expertise in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, Dr. Diane Schneider’s academic career focused on clinical care and clinical research of men and women. Diane’s research findings are published in, among others, JAMA – The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Annals of Internal Medicine. She has presented her work and related topics at numerous meetings and academic conferences. Diane is also a retired faculty member of UCSD’s School of Medicine.