Society of Freethinkers (SOFREE) Book Club - March 23, 2025

Thanks to the Society of Freethinkers (SOFREE) for inviting Dr. Pat Zehr to speak to about Peggy was Right and reproductive rights to a virtual book club gathering of members. See Photos page for more. 

Peggy was Right on McMaster University Alumni Author site

Dr. Pat Zehr graduated from McMaster University's Medical School. They are adding her latest book, Peggy was Right, to their Goodreads bookshelf and to their Alumni Authors site​. The news was also shared with alumni colleagues in the Faculty of Health Sciences. 

The Book Cover podcast now available on Spotify

Now you can listen to the podcast conducted by Lisa Parlow Tucker on Spotifiy. She interviewed Dr. Pat Zehr about her new book, Peggy was Right, a novel about reproductive rights and the differences between Canada and the United States.​

CBC

Markus Schwabe with Morning North at CBC Radio in Sudbury interviews Dr. Zehr, author of Peggy was Right, to discuss her new book about reproductive rights and the differences between Canada and the United States.
Markus Schwabe, Morning North, CBC Radio, July 3, 2024​

Peggy was Right review in The Sault Star

Zehr's novel opens conversation about women's rights to choose - Dr. Patricia Zehr's goal was to bring to life the important right Canadian women have to choose a health care option that is best for them, physically, mentally and to create discussion about the issue.
by Elaine Della-Mattia The Sault Star, June 7, 2024​

Teach-Read-Inspire review of Peggy was Right

Having first read The Beatles, Babies and Broken Bodies, Angie at Teach-Read-Inspire was eager to read and review Peggy was Right. She features it in the Books on Reproductive Hearth and Women's Rights section. Here's an excerpt. "I really enjoyed this book, especially how the author was able to contrast the health care situation in Texas with the one she is intimately familiar with in Canada. Peggy, Delilah and Becky are all really well crafted characters who are easy to relate to and empathize with, no matter what age and stage of life you are in."

Lisa Tucker interviews Dr. Zehr about Peggy was Right on The Book Cover

"Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth." Early in this podcast Pat quotes The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese to explain the truth telling in her latest book Peggy was Right. The point of her book is to show how bureaucrats are taking away women's rights for their own bodies. It is her fervent hope that extreme views and policies held in the U.S. don't come to Canada. 

Dr. Pat Zehr offers 'unique perspective' on dangers of 'politicizing' health care

Retired MD’s latest book, Peggy Was Right, launches May 2; fundraiser for Sault Area Hospital Foundation, Jeffrey Ougler, The Sault Star, April 10, 2024

Local doctor to discuss new book at fundraising event​

Dr. Pat Zehr's second novel 'Peggy was Right' is a fictional story about an Ontario nurse who takes a job in Texas, Soo Today, April 9, 2024

In Conversation with Dr. Pat Zehr / Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7pm

Physician-turned-author Dr. Pat Zehr gives back to the Sault Area Hospital Foundation through a fundraiser at The Loft. This special event showcases Dr. Zehr “In Conversation” discussing her new book, Peggy was Right.

Dr. Zehr's biography The Beatles, Babies and Broken Bodies is now followed by this new novel, a fictional story, based on the current crisis of reproductive healthcare and autonomy. Dr. Zehr draws on her personal experience in writing the story about Peggy, an Ontario nurse who seeks employment in Texas - focusing on issues in reproductive rights.

Please join us for this event in support of the Sault Area Hospital Foundation. The Loft (at the Algoma Conservatory of Music) is located at 75 Huron Street, Sault Ste. Marie.

Praise for Dr. Zehr

When I was the Chair of the Physician Retention and Recruitment Committee, Dr. Pat Zehr and Mary Jane Yorke and myself travelled to Toronto to meet with the Ontario Medical Association and their President.

I have to comment that Dr. Zehr was the patient advocate voice at the meeting table. I have read and recommend her book – The Beatles, Babies, and Broken Bodies -  which is based on her lived experience and definitely  shines a light on the Canadian healthcare system and creates the dialogue needed to facilitate change.   
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​Peter Vaudry, former Chair of the Physician Retention and Recruitment Committee, Sault Ste. Marie

Memoir covers life as nurse, doctor, patient and advocate

Sault author’s four surgeries left her disillusioned with healthcare system; changes since training in 1980s ‘are not good … we really need to rebuild a lot’ 
by Nadine Robinson, Sault This Week, October 6, 2023 

What Reviewers are Saying

"Zehr is candid about physician burnout and how some doctors never notice the negative changes occurring in their own bodies due to mental stress and sheer exhaustion. The well-written memoir’s concluding chapters concern the author not as a medical professional but as a patient and health care consumer, forced to personally wrestle with the system’s inadequacies and frustrations. This segment is as real as it gets and unpacks a great amount of disillusionment and exasperation with an industry Zehr had enjoyed a bittersweet relationship with."
— Kirkus Reviews

The Sault Star Interviews Dr. Pat Zehr

Dr. Pat Zehr shares her heath-care journey as a provider, patient and advocate in newly released memoir. An interview by Elaine Della-Mattia.

 Dr. Pat Zehr interviewed on The Book Cover podcast

Listen as Lisa Tucker of the Borderline Radio Soo interviews Dr. Pat Zehr about her new book The Beatles, Babies and Broken Bodies.

Local doctors turned authors to discuss their new books - SooToday

Newly published authors, Dr. Pat Zehr and Dr. Graham Elder, will use their books to help raise funds for the Sault Area Hospital. An event will be held at The Loft on November 9.

Doctors-turned-authors raise money for Sault Area Hospital - CTV Northern Ontario

Dr. Pat Zehr and Dr. Graham Elder are looking forward to a fundraising event for the Sault Area Hospital at The Loft on November 9. The event will shine a light on the challenges facing healthcare workers and give the audience a peek into the healthcare system as both doctors have experienced it.

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