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Jan 15, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Claire Brown |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us as we explore the emotional toll of high-stakes health care with physician, speaker, and thought leader Pamela Buchanan. Discover her insights on the “emotional flatline,” a defense mechanism that shields health care professionals but can erode empathy and connection.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Nancie Wiseman Attwater |Kellie Stecher |Claire Brown |Christine Pisera Naman
A widow’s walk, also known as a widow’s watch or roof walk, is a railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola or turret, frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses. The name is said to come from the wives of mariners, who would watch for their spouses’ return, often in vain, as the ocean took their lives, leaving the women widows.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Pat Wetzel |Sherry-Ann Brown |Michele Luckenbaugh |Claire Brown
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!In this episode, we sit down with Jonathan Fisher, a cardiologist, mindfulness teacher, and expert in holistic heart health. Drawing from his personal journey through anxiety and burnout, Jonathan shares insights from his book Just One Heart, revealing seven timeless traits for vitality and well-being.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Carol Ewig |Emily Hagen |Michele Luckenbaugh |Claire Brown
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join Deborah C. Smith, a nurse who shares her courageous battle with T-cell lymphocytic leukemia and aplastic anemia. Diagnosed in 2017, Deborah navigated extreme fatigue, frequent transfusions, and challenging chemotherapy regimens before finding hope in ATGAM equine immunotherapy.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Jillian Rigert |Claire Brown |Ricardo CorrêA |Ryan McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy
Such calmness,Groundedness,Beauty,Standing tall and mighty. The sense of peace in your presence—Protected,Safe,A patient teacher. No rah-rah, motivational fluff. Quiet, yet confident,Not rushing,Not chasing,Not running around striving. Still, grounded, present. In a world where people tell me I need to take big financial risks to be fulfilled, I say bullsh*t. My inner fulfillment is felt when still, calm, and trusting that this simple life I cherish is the most fulfilling of all.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deborah Smith |Carol Ewig |Emily Hagen |Claire Brown
This paper is written from the author’s perspective after receiving ATGAM equine immunotherapy for the treatment of aplastic anemia. This journey began in 2017 with the diagnosis of T-cell lymphocytic leukemia without having achieved remission. The author experienced extreme fatigue and shortness of breath. A full cardiac and pulmonary work-up was completed, and all findings were within normal limits. A CBC revealed a hemoglobin level of 4.4! Thus, the journey begins.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ryan McCarthy |Ryan Mccarthy |Claire Brown |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury
On this particular day, my heart rolled off my arm and crashed on the cold exam room floor. I summoned the strength—from where? I don’t know. Ginny cried, and between sobs, she described a brain tumor, the one that left him in a bed for a year. I handed her two tissues (one was never enough) and heaved my stool forward. I wrapped my entire arm around her as tears poured off her nose and distorted the phone screen.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
medium.com | Claire Brown
Siblings are bound together in a strange, mysterious way that goes beyond having the same parents. Growing up in the same house, experiencing the same tragedies, sharing in the same sorts of punishments and rewards: all of these cement people together. In Little Women, there is a dynamic bond between the March sisters. They live through the Civil War together while their father is a nurse on the battlefield.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
tennessean.com | Claire Brown
An East Tennessee minister makes a Biblical plea for Tennessee elected officials to feed the children and ensure that they remain fed. Claire BrownGuest ColumnistThe Rev. Claire Brown is an Episcopal priest, writer, facilitator, and spiritual director living and ministering in East Tennessee. I’m a Christian minister, and that means that I’m in the business of feeding people.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
tennessean.com | Claire Brown
The Rev. Claire Brown is an Episcopal priest, writer, facilitator, and spiritual director living and ministering in East Tennessee. God may not be dead, but his church is headed for hospice if we don’t get our heads out of our ecclesiastical backsides. My wife and I visited a mainline church on a Main Street in a deep red southern town last month and found … the audience from a 1972 episode of Lawrence Welk. Every hymn sounded like a dirge from the funeral I feared we had stumbled in on.
