First, Do No Harm

By Tiffany Solter PhD

Dr. Benedict Arnold has spent thirty years being the only doctor Millbrook has ever needed. He delivered half the town. He stitched together the other half. And when the county's last mental health center closed, he swore he'd build something better: one clinic, one door, no patient ever falling through the cracks between body and mind.

He builds it. And he hands the keys to his son.
Chip Arnold has never run so much as a lemonade stand, but family takes care of family, and Benedict has never been able to tell his own boy no. When Chip hires a charming, confident behavioral health director named Dr. Scott Devane, no one at Arnold Family Practice thinks to ask the one question that matters: what does that PhD actually mean?

Nurse Dawn Vasquez asks it anyway. And loses everything for asking.
Told from the exam room to the deposition table, First, Do No Harm is a novel about the dream of "one roof" for rural healthcare, and what happens when the people meant to protect that dream protect each other instead. It is about the silence that keeps small towns running, and the cost paid by the one person willing to break it.
Because sometimes the most dangerous person in the room isn't the one who means harm.
I
t's the one who never has to answer for it.
Includes a Jungian analysis of the novel's central figures....the Wounded Healer, the Puer Aeternus, the Persona....and a Call to Action for readers navigating the same institutional silence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCLMGGN8
• ISBN13: 9798190086812
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"