#107 – No Peace in Quiet with Keli Rueth, DNP, CRNA

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What’s up yall this is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 107 – No Peace In Quiet with Keli Rueth.

I’m pumped to bring you this conversation with Keli where we discuss her first published novel, No Peace In Quiet.

This episode was so much fun to record and I think you’re really going to enjoy it. It’s a story that is worth sharing on an anesthesia podcast because it’s a story about how we as anesthesia providers explore the rest of our lives… how we can step out from our clinical roles as anesthesia providers to express our creativity and joy in a different way than being mixologists and potion makers in the OR.

In this episode, Keli and I talk through her process and approach to finding her passion for writing and how she has snuck that in to the nooks and crannies of her life between working as a mother, full time CRNA and professor of anesthesiology at the University of New England.

Keli Rueth is the pen name of Dr Keli Scrapchansky, who, by the way, was one of my favorite people on planet earth even before I knew she was a novelist. Keli started her career at Maine Medical Center just a few months before my wife, Kristin, and I did back 2015. She graduated with her Master’s in Anesthesia from Old Dominion University in 2014 and went on to complete her Doctor of Nursing Practice at the University of North Florida. Keli is one of those people who shows up anywhere with a smile on her face and brightens up the room she walks into. It’s incredibly difficult to get through a conversation of any length with her without laughing about whatever topic is on the table. She’s an easy conversationalist, a masterful clinician and educator and now, a published novelist.

No Peace In Quiet is Keli Rueth’s first novel in a trilogy, the next volume of which has a planned release for later this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed reading No Peace In Quiet and literally couldn’t stop turning the pages as the story developed and unfolded in the small town and surrounding mountains of Quiet, North Carolina.

You can check out Keli’s book at kelirueth.com.

And with that, let’s get to the show!