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Labor: One Woman's Work

by Mary Fariba Afsari

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Book of the Day, NPR · April 15, 2026

'Labor' is a memoir by a doctor who traveled the country with a mobile OB-GYN clinic

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A memoir by a board-certified OB-GYN who, frustrated with the business-driven state of modern medicine, purchased an RV and converted it into a mobile clinic, driving across the country to bring compassionate medical care to patients and rediscover joy in her profession.

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