Doctor with a passion for paediatrics, public health and disability. she/her. media: [email protected] You can preorder my book below :)
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It was a pleasure to be interviewed for the Guardian on advocacy, ableism and radical acceptance. You can read it here: theguardian.com/society/2021…
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Interview with Grace Spence Green about her book To Exist As I Am. Describes her experiences going from doctor, to patient fighting for her life, to wheelchair using doctor.
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Wonderful to be on this list thank you @doctor_oxford and have just bought The SafeKeep to read on my holiday!
A pleasure to share some of my favourite recent reads in the @GuardianBooks - @RebeccaSolnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There, @gspencegreen’s To Exist as I am & Yael Van Der Wouden’s sublime The Safekeep 📚
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A pleasure to share some of my favourite recent reads in the @GuardianBooks - @RebeccaSolnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There, @gspencegreen’s To Exist as I am & Yael Van Der Wouden’s sublime The Safekeep 📚
theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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At the age of twenty-two, @gspencegreen’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital supporting patients, the next she was fighting for her own life. She joins @xandvt to share her story.
30 June | 6:00pm | Online
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'I woke up in a body that did not feel like my own, a body that others knew much more about'
On the blog, @gspencegreen shares the moment that changed her life and shaped her understanding of the meaning of injury, care, autonomy and healing: waterstones.com/blog/grace_s…
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On @MacKenzieSelina's Lifestyles at 14.00CET, Dr @JuradoAnaRosa - Gynaecologist and Sexologist, on the 15th European Meeting Congress on Menopause and Andropause, and Grace Spence Green (@gspencegreen) with 'To Exist As I Am: A Doctor's Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance'
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'I wouldn't take this injury back because of all it's given me'
Junior doctor @gspencegreen was walking through a shopping centre in London when she was hit by a falling man, breaking her spine.
She joined @itsanitarani to discuss her experiences ⬇️
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Dr Grace Spence Green's life changed forever in 2018 when a man jumped from the third storey of a shopping centre, crushing her to the ground. He was left with just a fractured leg, but Grace suffered a spinal cord injury, paralysing her from the chest down.
7 years on, Grace is now a resident doctor. She says she is accepting of her disability and considers it to be a 'gift' when it comes to connecting with her patients.
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💬"The most important thing for me was critically looking back and unpicking what I'd been told about disability over 22 years, and looking at society and infrastructure and how that disables me." @gspencegreen
Dr Grace Spence Green's life changed forever in 2018 when a man jumped from the third storey of a shopping centre, crushing her to the ground. He was left with just a fractured leg, but Grace suffered a spinal cord injury, paralysing her from the chest down.
7 years on, Grace is now a resident doctor. She says she is accepting of her disability and considers it to be a 'gift' when it comes to connecting with her patients.
Thrilled to be one Waterstones Junes Best Books List! Out on Thursday!
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Just finished this beautiful, powerful, indelible read.
It chronicles @gspencegreen's journey from 22-year-old medical student to qualified doctor & disability activist after a man falls onto her in a shopping centre, breaking her spine.
Out next week & it's superb.
Can't wait for this conversation with someone i admire very much @xandvt !!
Really looking to this event. @gspencegreen’s book is an extraordinary story. Essential reading!
Book tickets below! 👇
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At the age of twenty-two, @gspencegreen’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital supporting patients, the next she was fighting for her own life. She joins @xandvt to share her story.
30 June | 6:00pm | Online
howtoacademy.com/events/a-do…
As usual, Rebekah Taussig always finds a way of speaking so eloquently on things I didn't realise I was feeling too but had no words to verbalise. Grateful for her voice here;
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Have so been looking forward to this book. Especially after your extraordinary interview on BBC Life Changing.
On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write.
At first it was a way to anchor myself to the strange new reality I had found myself in, but as I wrote, as I learnt, I began to think this could be something bigger than just my diary.
I’m so grateful to the team at Wellcome and Profile for seeing the potential in this.
This has been the best thing I’ve ever done, and I can’t wait for you to read it.
It’s out on June 5th, but as a new author, pre-orders massively help with visibility so I'd be so grateful if you'd considering ordering ahead of publication!
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