In Conversation with Terry Shepherd

Carolyn Larkin Taylor - Whispers of the Mind, a Neurologist’s Memoir

Terry Shepherd

 Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor is a neurologist with decades of experience, and now, she's turning her stethoscope inward in a powerful new memoir, Whispers of the Mind.

Through a series of deeply personal essays, Dr. Taylor takes us behind hospital doors and into the moments that defined her—from the crushing task of declaring a teenage boy brain dead, to the quiet redemption of caring for her estranged father in his final days. With compassion, candor, and a poet’s eye for detail, she invites us to consider the weight of every diagnosis, the grace in every goodbye, and the fragile beauty of the mind itself.