What if the system that’s supposed to save you… is actually the thing breaking you?

I’ve spent over 15 years inside American healthcare as a nurse at the bedside and in the chaos, and I can tell you this: what people think happens, and what actually happens, are not the same thing.

Broken and Brave takes you inside a single 12-hour hospital shift during the height of COVID, where nothing is controlled, everything is stretched thin, and the decisions being made aren’t always the ones you’d expect. It’s not the polished version you hear in meetings or see in hospital ads, it’s what it actually feels like on the inside.

From there, the I go to the bigger picture: a system tangled in insurance red tape, burned-out providers, questionable incentives, and patients who are often left confused, overwhelmed, or unheard.

This isn’t a clean, feel-good story. It’s messy, frustrating, and human, but it’s honest.

If you’ve ever sat in a hospital room and thought, something about this doesn’t feel right, or if you’ve been the one on the other side of the bed trying to hold it all together while the system falls apart, you’ll recognize this.

This book isn’t here to scare you, and it’s not here to pretend everything’s fine. It’s here to tell the truth, and to remind you that you’re not crazy for questioning things.

We are not broken. We, are brave.