listening to patientsListening To Patients: Slowly Recovering From Sexual Abuse By A TeacherDr. Annie Brewster spoke with Daniel, who was molested by a teacher in middle school. She writes: "He is a survivor of trauma, and so much more. No one part...Local CoverageDec 28, 2016Event: Telling Your Medical Story, Restoring The Doctor-Patient ConnectionTheme of an upcoming Hubweek event: As medicine becomes increasingly dependent on technology, patients have fewer opportunities to tell their stories and similarly, clinicians are less likely to hear their...Local CoverageAug 26, 2016When A Mother Decides To Stop Cancer Treatment And Face Death"My miracle isn’t that I walk out of here and I get cured. My miracle is that I got 13 years of a Stage 3C diagnosis," said Colleen Lum.Local CoverageAug 5, 2016Buffets One Day, Vomiting The Next — Life With A Rare GI DiseaseEvery single day, every second of every day, I think about food. I see it; I smell it; I cook it and feed it to the other members of my...Local CoverageApr 27, 2016SharingClinic, To Help Patients Tell Their Stories, Opens At Mass. General Hospital"Hospitals can be cold, scary, lonely places," said Dr. Annie Brewster, an MGH internist. "SharingClinic aims to build community and to lessen this sense of isolation."Local CoverageJan 22, 2016AdvertisementHealth Boost: Story-Sharing Kiosk For Hospital Patients Coping With Illness Set To LaunchThe project was born out of frustration with a medical system that no longer has the time to really listen to patients, says Dr. Annie Brewster, an MGH internist who's...Local CoverageOct 29, 2015Traumatic Turning Point: How The Marathon Bombing Shifted One Woman's DepressionSomething changed on the finish line at the Boston Marathon in 2013. It was, Jennifer says, “a turning point” in her life, but not in the ways you might expect.Local CoverageApr 20, 2015From Crushing Infertility To Letting Go Of 'How It Should Be'Dr. Annie Brewster's interview with Sue Levy, a patient with a rare lung disease who also went through an infertility ordeal -- but now has two daughters and the wisdom...Local CoverageAug 6, 2014When Your Writing Is Part of Your HealingDr. Annie Brewster, a Boston internist who uses storytelling therapeutically, as a path toward healing, interviews Sarah Baker about her childhood asthma and how she came to understand it, in...Local CoverageJun 5, 2014Life Lessons From An Ultra Rare, Potentially Fatal DiseaseWhat if you were suddenly diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease just when your life, work and marriage were on track and your plans to start a family were underway?...Local CoverageApr 4, 2014Storytelling For Health: Doctor Promotes Intimate Patient NarrativesDr. Annie Brewster says: "My experience in the health care system -- both as a physician and as a patient living with multiple sclerosis -- has convinced me that the...Local CoverageMar 11, 2014West Nile Story: 400 Days In Hospital, A New View Of Health Care (And Life)In August of 2012, Charlie Atkinson was bitten by a mosquito in the garden outside his home in Cambridge, Mass. From that bite, against the odds, he contracted West Nile...Local CoverageJan 17, 2014From Spring Break To Quadriplegia, And Building A New LifeLocal CoverageMar 9, 2012Save The Date: Jan. 30, Join Us For Stories Of Where Illness Takes YouCommonHealth's first meet-up: Screening of the film "Outside In."Local CoverageJan 9, 2012A Young Woman Confronts Her Fiancé's SuicideA Young Woman Confronts Her Fiancé's SuicideLocal CoverageApr 28, 2011Podcast Friday: Storytelling As Patient Therapy; 'Better Care, Cheaper' ExperimentThe latest podcast features medical storytelling and a program that cuts costs while improving care.Local CoverageMar 11, 2011When An Eating Disorder Takes Over A Teenager's LifeLocal CoverageFeb 3, 2011Listening To Patients: Farewell To A Doctor Of The Greatest GenerationCharles Poser, an extraordinary doctor and human being, died recently.Local CoverageJan 24, 2011Chemotherapy For Life: One Woman's StoryA Cambridge woman faces chemotherapy for the rest of her life.Local CoverageJan 3, 2011More on Painful Sex And How To Treat ItWomen begin to speak out about pain during sex.Local CoverageDec 10, 2010Next Page
Listening To Patients: Slowly Recovering From Sexual Abuse By A TeacherDr. Annie Brewster spoke with Daniel, who was molested by a teacher in middle school. She writes: "He is a survivor of trauma, and so much more. No one part...Local CoverageDec 28, 2016
Event: Telling Your Medical Story, Restoring The Doctor-Patient ConnectionTheme of an upcoming Hubweek event: As medicine becomes increasingly dependent on technology, patients have fewer opportunities to tell their stories and similarly, clinicians are less likely to hear their...Local CoverageAug 26, 2016
When A Mother Decides To Stop Cancer Treatment And Face Death"My miracle isn’t that I walk out of here and I get cured. My miracle is that I got 13 years of a Stage 3C diagnosis," said Colleen Lum.Local CoverageAug 5, 2016
Buffets One Day, Vomiting The Next — Life With A Rare GI DiseaseEvery single day, every second of every day, I think about food. I see it; I smell it; I cook it and feed it to the other members of my...Local CoverageApr 27, 2016
SharingClinic, To Help Patients Tell Their Stories, Opens At Mass. General Hospital"Hospitals can be cold, scary, lonely places," said Dr. Annie Brewster, an MGH internist. "SharingClinic aims to build community and to lessen this sense of isolation."Local CoverageJan 22, 2016
Health Boost: Story-Sharing Kiosk For Hospital Patients Coping With Illness Set To LaunchThe project was born out of frustration with a medical system that no longer has the time to really listen to patients, says Dr. Annie Brewster, an MGH internist who's...Local CoverageOct 29, 2015
Traumatic Turning Point: How The Marathon Bombing Shifted One Woman's DepressionSomething changed on the finish line at the Boston Marathon in 2013. It was, Jennifer says, “a turning point” in her life, but not in the ways you might expect.Local CoverageApr 20, 2015
From Crushing Infertility To Letting Go Of 'How It Should Be'Dr. Annie Brewster's interview with Sue Levy, a patient with a rare lung disease who also went through an infertility ordeal -- but now has two daughters and the wisdom...Local CoverageAug 6, 2014
When Your Writing Is Part of Your HealingDr. Annie Brewster, a Boston internist who uses storytelling therapeutically, as a path toward healing, interviews Sarah Baker about her childhood asthma and how she came to understand it, in...Local CoverageJun 5, 2014
Life Lessons From An Ultra Rare, Potentially Fatal DiseaseWhat if you were suddenly diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease just when your life, work and marriage were on track and your plans to start a family were underway?...Local CoverageApr 4, 2014
Storytelling For Health: Doctor Promotes Intimate Patient NarrativesDr. Annie Brewster says: "My experience in the health care system -- both as a physician and as a patient living with multiple sclerosis -- has convinced me that the...Local CoverageMar 11, 2014
West Nile Story: 400 Days In Hospital, A New View Of Health Care (And Life)In August of 2012, Charlie Atkinson was bitten by a mosquito in the garden outside his home in Cambridge, Mass. From that bite, against the odds, he contracted West Nile...Local CoverageJan 17, 2014
Save The Date: Jan. 30, Join Us For Stories Of Where Illness Takes YouCommonHealth's first meet-up: Screening of the film "Outside In."Local CoverageJan 9, 2012
A Young Woman Confronts Her Fiancé's SuicideA Young Woman Confronts Her Fiancé's SuicideLocal CoverageApr 28, 2011
Podcast Friday: Storytelling As Patient Therapy; 'Better Care, Cheaper' ExperimentThe latest podcast features medical storytelling and a program that cuts costs while improving care.Local CoverageMar 11, 2011
Listening To Patients: Farewell To A Doctor Of The Greatest GenerationCharles Poser, an extraordinary doctor and human being, died recently.Local CoverageJan 24, 2011
Chemotherapy For Life: One Woman's StoryA Cambridge woman faces chemotherapy for the rest of her life.Local CoverageJan 3, 2011
More on Painful Sex And How To Treat ItWomen begin to speak out about pain during sex.Local CoverageDec 10, 2010
