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Latest Fiction:
A narrative medicine short story, published in the Fall 2022 issue of The Intima
What will healthcare look like when treatment decisions are made by AI? A nurse learns the painful truth in this timely futuristic tale.
NonFiction: Award-winning:
The Fragile Line, published in the Fall 2021 Issue of The Intima
Third Place Winner in the 2021 Willamette Writer’s Kay Snow Writing Contest Elizabeth Lyon Award for Creative Nonfiction, under the title, “Becoming One of Them”
When A Patient Wants to ‘Try Everything,’ Including Pseudoscience
Winner, 2021 Doximity Op-Med Editor’s Pick
The Things We Work Through When Maybe We Shouldn’t
Honorable Mention, Online/Print Article, Writer’s Digest 90th Annual Writing Competition
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Runner-up, 2021 Doximity Op-Med Pathos Award
Ten Wishes From a Rural Oncologist
Honorable mention, Online/Print Article, Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition
Don’t Call Me Lucky: on female physicians’ experiences of gender bias from patients.
Honorable mention, Online/Print Article, Writer’s Digest 88th Annual Writing Competition
Exist in Both Moments
A winning entry in the OHSU 2019 Humanities Month Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest.
A narrative medicine essay reflecting on the intersection of “mom life” and “oncologist life” in a small community, also published in Doximity’s Op-med.
**List of all my Medscape articles with links**
*Link to all my Doximity Op-(m)ed essays*
Journal Publications
First Smiles and Second Opinions
Jennifer Lycette, MD
Honored to have this piece published as Perspective #4 in The International Journal of Academic Medicine as part of The women in medicine summit: An evolution of empowerment in Chicago, Illinois, October 9 and 10, 2020.
Madani K, Pendergrast T, Sundareshan V, Jain S. The women in medicine summit: An evolution of empowerment in Chicago, Illinois, October 9 and 10, 2020: Event highlights, scientific abstracts, and dancing with markers. Int J Acad Med [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Feb 13];6:337-98. Available from: https://www.ijam-web.org/text.asp?2020/6/4/337/273937
*you can also read it on my blog here*
Present at Bedside at Time of Death
Jennifer Lycette, MD
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.20.00613 Journal of Clinical Oncology 38, no. 19 (July 01, 2020) 2208-2210.
A reflection on the challenges of serving the under-insured in under-resourced rural regions, and the unexpected revelations one patient reveals when given the space to be heard.
**update February 2021. It was a privilege to have this piece highlighted by Medscape reporter Nick Mulcahy in his piece, “Does Cancer Care Inspire Great Writing?“
Making Room
Jennifer Lycette, MD
JAMA. 2018;319(24):2479–2480. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.7438
A narrative medicine essay in the popular JAMA column, “A Piece of My Mind.” A reflection on creating space for sorrow and loss to eoexist with joy and loss, both personally and professionally.
Neglected — Cancer Care and Mental Health in Rural America
Jennifer Lycette, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2016; 375:2220-2221 December 8, 2016
A perspective essay on the challenges of providing cancer care in the setting of mental illness, when the resources to treat the mental illness are lacking.
The Puzzle Table
Jennifer Lycette, MD
http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2017.75.7872
A perspective essay in the Art of Oncology section of The Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The Art of Oncology features narratives, poetry, and photo essays that explore the experience of suffering from cancer or caring for people with cancer.
The Mystery of Grace
Jennifer Lycette, MD
A reflection on the internal struggles and conflicts oncologists face when saying goodbye to patients who have foreknowledge of expected death from cancer, and the transitions in care from the oncologist to the palliative care or home hospice team.
Practicing Hope
Jennifer Lycette, MD
JAMA Oncol. 2016;2(4):431-432. Cancer Care Chronicles April 2016
A narrative essay exploring the different kinds of hope that can exist even in the setting of advanced cancer, and how oncologists try to negotiate this delicate balance.