Thank you, netgalley and broadleaf for this ARC!

Dr. Brian Williams is the ideal person to write this particular book- an airforce vetran turned trauma surgeon, he is on the front lines of the gun violence epidemic, and witness to the tragedy of 7/7, operating on sevral of the officers who lost their lives. He is also a black man who has faced structural racism and seen its effect on his patients. This book is effortlessly readable and incredibly impactful, and i think it is incredible that dr. Williams took his trauma and accidental celebrity and has attacked the problem of gun violence and health inequity by writing this story and working ceaseless to protect his patients.

Also made me maybe want to be a trauma nurse, up until the point they said they were putting in 14gauge ivs (GIRL WHERE!?)

This book is phenomenal!
Dr. Williams strategically interweaves his personal experiences, current events, history, emotions, statistics, and so much more in this beautifully written work of nonfiction. The author highlights injustices rooted in the systemic and structural racism of the US healthcare system and beyond, explaining how the inequity of these systems are rooted in and perpetuated by our country's history. While Dr. Williams is not the first author to educate readers about these injustices, for this reader, he stands out from the others, because he goes a step further. With honesty and integrity, he opens up about his own professional "coming-of-age", explaining how age and experience have transformed his own beliefs, spurring him toward activism. I look forward to seeing more from Dr. Williams in the future.

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for allowing me early access to the ARC audiobook edition of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

In the book The Bodies Keep Coming we learn from Dr. Brian Williams who is a board-certified trauma surgeon or Harvard train Doctor, a military officer a father a husband and a black man and he was the only trauma surgeon and certified doctor at Parkland Hospital in Dallas the night cops were shot during a protest for those protesting the violence against black men in America by the police. He narrates his own story the emotional toll it took the night someone decided to take the lives of police officers not just the sadness of the ordeal but the things that were said from an ignorant nurse who’s misguided hatred was for BLM and she had no qualms in saying it to a hallway full of people to a father who lost his police officer son and had nothing but praise and admiration for Dr. Williams who saw his son to the end. The emotions remixed and Dr. Williams being a very smart man felt it all and although he didn’t go into this in his book it was a parent but it didn’t stop him from saluting the police officers when attention was called when the deceased bodies left the hospital. That is not until the middle of the book in the beginning we find out bur Baden what it’s like when Dr. Williams has to tell a mother the sun she loves and who she nursed as a baby it’s now dead in the trauma that comes after I think a lot of times when people watch the news the thing they forget is that these people were someone’s baby irregardless of how you feel about that person if someone dies there’s someone else who will be heartbroken and I think Dr. Brian did a good job conveying that there’s so many sad moments in this book he even talks about going to see his own therapist and what that looks like this was a great book and I have nothing but the upmost respect and admiration for Dr. Brian who has been treated as a janitor a cafeteria worker and many other jobs that although may not be demeaning isn’t what he was trained at Harvard to do and is only done to insult and try to put him in his place but being a smart man he is it seems he takes it all in stride because at the end of the day those peoples opinions don’t matter and so I think they should keep them to their self so many people are intimidated by others who are smarter better looking have more money or whatever and I think that’s ridiculous like Dr. Brian‘s wife likes to tell him deal with your own shit because Dr. Brian has lives to save.

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ALC

Williams is a surgeon that did everything right. He served his country in both the military and as a trauma surgeon attempting to save lives of those on the edge of death. And yet, he is continually reminded that he is a Black man before any other identifier. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams blends elements of memoir with well researched contextual elements from America’s past and present. Through the narrative we are allowed to watch Williams’ growth and awakening to a world that continues to shut him out.

Williams uses his own story, and the fascinating and horrific events of one night that he was in charge of the trauma wing when a mass shooting of police officers changed the course of his career. We are allowed to see the internal conflict that turned Williams from a bystander to an activist for change in the medical system to better serve all that enter the system.

Williams narrates the audio version with emotion and care. Adding that bit of non-verbal context to a story that can become clinical on the page.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest rating and review.

This book was phenomenal. The author has a very unique perspective on racism and gun violence, having been in the military and working a career as a trauma surgeon. There are some really powerful, moving stories about his experiences! There are also a lot of horrifying, yet sadly not shocking, statistics. Conversations like the ones in this book need to be on the forefront of everybody’s minds and be talked about on a large scale. I really hope this book takes off and reaches a huge audience to incite change!!

Eye-opening look at how trauma medicine and gun violence in America intersect with race and poverty.

Trauma Surgeon, Brian H. Williams has worked in a number of metropolitan hospitals, all with the same patients, victims of gun violence in America. He was the physician on call during the 7/7 attacks at a BLM protest in Texas where a number of police were injured and killed. He shares true and vivid memories of life in the Trauma bay treating patients arriving already too far gone, and those that are slowly succumbing to their injuries. It is a difficult but important discussion for us to have in America. Additionally, in being a black surgeon, Dr. Williams share a point of view that is important, and clearly demonstrates that we in America still have a long way to go regarding our treatment of race.

I will say - if you get queasy from bloody or intense descriptions of medical traumas, this may be a difficult book to read/listen. However, if you have an interest in the practices of a medical physician and are looking for their point of view, this is an important and interesting book. Dr. Williams also did a very comprehensive discussion of the issues of race in this country both in terms of the medical field, and the poverty lines and the establishment of different practices keeping the lines in race established. There are a number of misconceptions that Dr. Williams visit and debunks with clear evidence and data. Overall, if you did not already know, America has a long way to go regarding race and politics, and we are not as advanced as we would like. There are a number of issues in America that we need to accept as truths, and stop ignoring and hiding so that we can do better, and fix the injustices in this country. Additionally, I believe Dr. Williams offers a unique view as a physician that has lived and worked in Texas (specifically during the 7/7 BLM shootings), on gun violence in America. If you are interested in learning more about the issues of race and politics have on even the most needed and well-educated in our country, this is an important cook to read/listen. I truly believe everyone with an iota of interest should listen or read this book.

This audiobook is narrated by the author, and I found it clear and easy to listen.

This is such an interesting incredible honest telling of Dr Brain Williams. I really enjoyed it and was lovely listing to Dr Brain telling his life story

This was amazing. My fellow white ladies- this is one we have to read. I cried when he talked about the first time he as called the "n word" and I cried when he related the damage guns do the human body. I felt so much pain reading this - but I also felt hope. We can change things. We can help.
I learned a lot from this book. I also loved the way he narrated it all.

This book was unlike any I've ever read. I've read plenty of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and accounts of true crime events. However, this was.... all of those? None of those? I'm not sure how to classify it, honestly, but it was definitely a wonderful read.

I suppose I've never really thought about the disparity between the number of white surgeons and black surgeons out there, but this book opened my eyes to it in a way I've never imagined. It also presented some eye-opening facts about the horrible and unwanted role people of color - particularly black people - have played in the advancement of healthcare over the years.

I knew about the Tuskegee Airmen. I even knew that black women were forcibly sterilized in order to "advance the practice" of hysterectomies and other similar procedures. But I didn't realize the extent to which black people are used as guinea pigs in the medical field.

This book was insightful, eye-opening, and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about race relations and the injustices people of color have suffered in America. I can't say I "enjoyed" it because this isn't the kind of book you read for enjoyment. But I'm certainly glad I read it.

Superb memoir and call to action. Dr. Williams has an enrapturing writing style and the audiobook performance brings out the lyrical nature of the prose. As a physician and as a reader alike, could not more highly recommend.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Dr. Williams makes his living trying to save victims of violence. Mostly black victims of violence. He sees what guns do to the human body, and to the families whose children, brothers, fathers etc don't survive. It is after one horrible day of trying to save multiple police officers after they were targeted at a peaceful protest that turned violent. That day haunts him, it is also the incident that thrust him into the spotlight.

Dr. Williams is one of only a handful of black trauma surgeons and he sees what systemic racism in the USA has done to the healthcare system. Health inequality has lead to the deaths of more black individuals and those of lower income. But before we can solve that issue we also have to deal with gun violence and racism in the laws that govern guns.

This book is intelligent, well laid out and honest. He shares his fight to navigate a profession that values black bodies as teaching tools instead of men and women. He struggles with his place in the continuing narrative of guns, racism and trauma. To me there couldn't be a better spokesperson than someone on the front line of this fight - the fight to save lives particularly those of black and brown people.