While knowing that a life in medicine would be the perfect way to meld her science skills with her desire to connect with and help people, Suzie Brown wondered how she would ever be able to incorporate her creative side in that life. Find out how it is possible to find different ways to touch people’s hearts -- both literally and figuratively -- and how that can be an outlet for your own emotions. Touching Hearts: Suzie Brown on being vulnerable and finding the right outlets for emotion
Guest Suzie Brown Sax, Dartmouth '96, was part of lots of communities in college, from sports to Greek life. But she found her “people” for the first time, senior year, when she joined the female a cappella group the Rockapellas. While the group provided the creative outlet she didn’t know she needed, it also made her question her long-standing dreams to join her science skills with her interest in helping people in a life of medicine. Sage words from a summer music teacher right before she went off to medical school convinced her that she was lucky that she had more than one talent and that somehow there would be a way to keep music in her life.
Little did she know that she would find a way to touch lives through both a vibrant cardiology practice and a career as a singer-songwriter—both of which are about vulnerability in very different ways. She feels a clear sense of purpose with cardiology and puts all of her energy and thought into her patients when she is with them. But she also could never see herself stopping creating music.
In this episode, find out from Suzie different ways to touch people’s hearts and how to be strong for others, you sometimes need to find another outlet for emotions you can’t express elsewhere …on ROADS TAKEN...with Leslie Jennings Rowley.
About This Episode's Guest
Suzie Brown is an advanced heart failure/heart transplant cardiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a singer-song writer with multiple albums to her name, including her latest Under the Surface. She lives in Nashville with musician husband Scot Sax and their two daughters. Find Suzie and her music at suziebrownsongs.com.
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Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley
Music: Brian Burrows
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