Gordana Smith
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When the corporate medical system turned its back on her son Mikey, Dr. Gordana Smith stopped being just a doctor. She became a mother at war. Faced with a devastating, under-recognized infection and an indifferent healthcare apparatus that prioritized protocol over human life, she refused to let her child be rendered invisible. She fought through the halls of institutional medicine, a blistering spiritual crisis, and a crushing systemic silence designed to break her.
She wrote Book of the Silenced to shatter that silence forever. Her unvarnished creative nonfiction memoir is the raw, gripping war journal of that fight. It chronicles what happens when clinical humility is replaced by institutional blindness, and how a mother’s fierce love can challenge a broken empire. The narrative has already earned top literary honors, including a Kirkus Recommendation, a FAPA Medal, and the Mom’s Choice Gold Award, with medical professionals calling it "required reading." |
Today, through her writing, her advocacy, and her practice at Phoenix Rises Acupuncture, Gordana dedicates her life to exposing medical malpractice and protecting other vulnerable families. She doesn't write for accolades; she writes for absolute accountability, hard-won truth, and to ensure that Mikey’s legacy changes the face of modern medicine forever.
Book of the Silenced
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Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoir
Book of the Silenced is a monumental intersection of geopolitical trauma and institutional critique. The memoir parallels the author’s survival of a brutal genocide with her agonizing warfare within the labyrinth of the American healthcare system to save her teenage son, Mikey. After a minor sports injury, Mikey becomes a casualty of a rigid, pharmaceutical-first system and near-fatal clinical errors. Refusing to accept institutional silencing, Dr. Gordana Smith transforms from a witness of historical atrocities into an unyielding medical advocate. Written in real-time at hospital bedsides, this book operates as a high-stakes medical mystery, a scathing critique of systemic failures, and a deeply spiritual testimony of survival. Narrative non-fiction, memoir 
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