Medicine
What the heart teaches us about listening
On the quiet skill of hearing what a patient hasn't yet said aloud.
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Writing
Essays, books, and quiet correspondence with readers.
A gathering place for Dr. Brown's published books, long-form essays, and personal reflections on medicine, leadership, faith, travel, and the ordinary miracles of a working life.
Featured Work
A Book
The Well-Kept Heart
Forthcoming
Forthcoming Book
A field guide to caring for the muscle — and the meaning — inside your chest.
Part science, part story. Drawing on two decades in cardiology and countless conversations with patients, Dr. Brown offers a modern manual for keeping the heart — physical and figurative — in working order.
Essays & Reflections
Selected writing.
Leadership
The physician as builder
Why the next generation of doctors must also be founders, mentors, and stewards of institutions.
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Faith
Rounds, prayer, and the discipline of hope
A meditation on the small rituals that hold a clinical life together.
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Travel
Notes from a city with an old heart
Between conferences, a walk through the architecture that inspired a decade of thinking.
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Innovation
Algorithms need bedside manners too
How the AI we build should reflect the doctors we hope to become.
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Reflection
On flourishing after achievement
What comes after the credentials — and why the second half matters most.
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