Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, shared on LinkedIn:
“Tomorrow marks exactly five months since I published Stuff I’d Tell My Sister on International Women’s Day.
I want to pause and just say thank you.
Not in a formal way, but in the way you thank someone who showed up when you needed them to. Your warm reviews have added fuel to my resolve. If the Amazon reviews are anything to go by (and the messages that keep finding their way to me), something in these pages is landing in ways I didn’t fully anticipate when I was writing them.
This week something stopped me mid-scroll. An oncologist, Dr. Bosibori Ondari, who bought the book, shared her thoughts on Instagram.
She wrote about her patients: women whose journeys often begin with missed opportunities for prevention, delayed diagnoses, misinformation.
And then she said something that stayed with me:
‘She writes as both a surgeon and a sister. This is a book I’d recommend to every young woman, every mother, every daughter, and every healthcare professional who believes that education can save lives.’
A surgeon AND a sister.
That is exactly what I was trying to be when I wrote it.
To every person who has read Stuff I’d Tell My Sister, reviewed it, gifted it, recommended it, or simply told one person it exists, THANK YOU again. You turned a book into a conversation. And the conversation is the whole point.
Thank you for being part of it. Picture: Dr. Bosibori is on the extreme right of the pic (my left).”
