Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD
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Patient voices
As people, we often have multiple stories to tell, from different perspectives. Multiple stories and perspectives can be wed or braided together around the same themes. Here we braid together two separate perspectives of a patient author and a physician…
As people, we often have multiple stories to tell, from different perspectives. Multiple stories and perspectives can be wed or braided together around the same themes. Here we braid together two separate perspectives of a patient author and a physician author, respectively.
From both perspectives, this is a story about the power of care, cancer, and quality of life.
Following my cancer diagnosis of nodal marginal zone lymphoma, I struggled with my …
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Healing and heart when recovering from cancer
Conditions and diseases
Storytelling is as old as humanity. In telling our stories, we share, learn, and ideally pass along wisdom. As Isak Dinesen once wrote, "To be a person is to have a story to tell." This story starts with PW's cancer…
Storytelling is as old as humanity. In telling our stories, we share, learn, and ideally pass along wisdom. As Isak Dinesen once wrote, “To be a person is to have a story to tell.”
This story starts with PW’s cancer diagnosis in 2009. Nodal marginal zone lymphoma: not curable, hopefully manageable.
For some, cancer invites a retreat within. For others, it can be a call to action. For me, it was a …
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Cancer can be an adventure into the soul
Health technology
Telemedicine will eventually become a more prominent part of our clinical practice, with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media and networks, and integration with precision medicine in electronic health records. As clinicians and scientists, we should be…
Telemedicine will eventually become a more prominent part of our clinical practice, with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media and networks, and integration with precision medicine in electronic health records. As clinicians and scientists, we should be thinking about where and how these four innovative strategies intersect, so that we can continue to not only contribute to the conversation and direction of these strategies, but also lead …
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How telemedicine intersects with AI, social media, and precision medicine
Health technology
Artificial intelligence (#AI) seems to be all the rage these days, as it should be, given its potential to revolutionize medicine in many ways. #AI is actually already an integral part of many of our lives on Google, Amazon, Facebook,…
Artificial intelligence (#AI) seems to be all the rage these days, as it should be, given its potential to revolutionize medicine in many ways. #AI is actually already an integral part of many of our lives on Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other sites. Siri and Alexa use #AI too, so we can’t easily escape it. Why would we want to?
Of course, one concern about the algorithms is that they often …
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The limitations of artificial intelligence in cardiology
Physician voices
The creative platform Lyrical Mezzanine (@LyricalMezz) aims to nurture resilience or resiliency in clinicians, caregivers, patients, chaplains, family members, friends, scientists, teachers, and others — and to combat burnout simultaneously. I created the platform out of a need to profoundly…
The creative platform Lyrical Mezzanine (@LyricalMezz) aims to nurture resilience or resiliency in clinicians, caregivers, patients, chaplains, family members, friends, scientists, teachers, and others — and to combat burnout simultaneously. I created the platform out of a need to profoundly process responses to experiences in medicine and science and to share the essence of those complex thought processes with others.
A mezzanine is usually considered a …
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How I share my creativity with others in medicine
Physician voices
When I mentioned to a colleague and mentee that I would be writing this article, she expressed excitement about it and felt it would be well received by many physicians who might have given up their art — their form…
When I mentioned to a colleague and mentee that I would be writing this article, she expressed excitement about it and felt it would be well received by many physicians who might have given up their art — their form of creative expression — for the sake of medicine.
I had recently been encouraging her to continue her passion for writing. Sometimes we need others to encourage us to “keep calm …
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Physicians have a right to pursue creativity
Physician voices
Superhero movies have long been my favorite. When I used to have a hobbies section of my resume, action adventure, thriller, and superhero movies were always listed. During one of my interviews for a medical residency position, the female interviewer…
Superhero movies have long been my favorite. When I used to have a hobbies section of my resume, action adventure, thriller, and superhero movies were always listed. During one of my interviews for a medical residency position, the female interviewer asked me about that hobby.
“Why have you listed action adventure and superhero movies as a hobby, and why do you enjoy them?”
“Because they help me see that the impossible can …
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Superhero movies: a perspective from a woman in medicine
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