About Carolyn

After working for ten years as a registered nurse in the newborn nursery, burn unit, and pediatric intensive care, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein became a board-certified pediatrician. Over the next several decades, she worked in a large urban community health center, a busy pediatric emergency department, and as a solo practitioner in private practice where she weathered the coronavirus pandemic. 

On a personal level, it would not be hyperbole to say that writing saved her: When her youngest son was hit by a drunk driver, sustaining a serious traumatic brain injury. When her youngest daughter developed a severe eating disorder and spent over a year in residential treatment. When her own career transformed from caring for children and families to caring for the caregivers and healthcare workers like herself.