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Theresa Brown is a regular contributor to Cancer Nursing Today. Her articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times, American Journal of Nursing, and CNN.com.

2026

2025

December 12, 2025
Stat News
Finally Some Good News in Health Care
November 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
It's Personal: When There's No One Right Medical Response to Cancer
October 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
A Close Look at the Research: Tylenol Does Not Cause Autism
October 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Patients With Breast Cancer Don't Have to Live With Pain
August 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: Arguing That Health Insurance Doesn't Affect People's Health, How Stupid is That?
July 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: The End Game for Medicaid and the Big Beautiful Budget-Busting Bill
June 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
What Nurses Do: We Create Care
May 1, 2025
The Contrarian
Do Republicans want more mothers to die?
May 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Nursing and the Power of a Helping Hand
March 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matter for Nurses
February 1, 2025
Cancer Nursing Today
Why Nurses Are Needed Ambassadors for Science

2026

Short-Staffed

A Primer on Palliative Care

Being Attacked on the Job is Not Nurses' Work

Why Nurses are Soldiers for Compassion

Graduate Nurses Are Professionals, and Are Needed

2025

Finally Some Good News in Health Care

It's Personal: When There's No One Right Medical Response to Cancer

A Close Look at the Research: Tylenol Does Not Cause Autism

Patients With Breast Cancer Don't Have to Live With Pain

Opinion: Arguing That Health Insurance Doesn't Affect People's Health, How Stupid is That?

Opinion: The End Game for Medicaid and the Big Beautiful Budget-Busting Bill

What Nurses Do: We Create Care

Do Republicans want more mothers to die?

Nursing and the Power of a Helping Hand

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matter for Nurses

Why Nurses Are Needed Ambassadors for Science

2024

Opinion: Brian Thompson's Shooting and Why People Are So Angry

Opinion: How Structural Racism Shaped the American Health Care System

Opinion: Private Equity and the Corruption of Care

Who Broke American Health Care

All the Ways Nurses Make the World

Working Sick Does Not Work for Patients or Nurses

2023

Opinion: Self-Care Isn't the Cure to Burnout, Managerial Support Is

The Invisibility of Women

A Spoonful of Humility Makes the Medicine Go Down

Assault on the Job is Not 'Part of the Job' for Nurses

Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout: What Nurses Should Know

Theresa Brown, RN, Discusses Nurse-Focused Workplace Violence in Health Care

Opinion: Don't Worry, Nurses Won't Be Replaced Any Time Soon

The Cost of Living While Human

Why Black Americans 'Live Sicker and Die Quicker'

2022

The Trauma and Grief of Frontline Clinicians

What I'm Reading: The Beauty in Breaking and the Power to Heal

2021

What I'm Reading: Aroused – A Rousing Look at Hormones

Opinion | Vaccinate All Health Care Workers Now

What I'm Reading: COVID-19 and Our National 'Moral Imperative'

Opinion | Covid-19 is 'Probably Going to End My Career'

What I'm Reading: The 'Grueling Process' of Emancipation

2020

What I'm Reading: How Marketing Practices Undermine Nursing

Define Nurse (In Three Words or Less)

What I'm Reading: Confronting Medical Error

No More 'Just a Nurse'

Opinion | I Accept Death, I Hope Doctors and Nurses Will, Too

Covid-19, the Literature of Illness

Opinion | The Reason Hospitals Won't Let Doctors and Nurses Speak Out

From the Source: The Nurse Worried for Her Peers on the Front Lines

New Nursing Needed for COVID-19: Making 'Old Nursing' History

What I'm Reading: Kindly Women and Practically Trained Subordinates

What My Daughter Fears for Me

Opinion | Who Will Care for Society's Forgotten?

Take Care of Yourself

What AI Reading of Mammograms Could Do for Women

2019

What I'm Reading: What She Leaves Behind

Opinion | The Medical System is One Giant Workaround

Opinion | Do More With Less? Nurse Says That's Nonsense

What I'm Reading: How We Fail the Dying

Opinion | Nurse: An Abortion is Not an Execution, Mr. President

Opinion | How to Make Doctors Think About Death

No Quick Fix for the Culture of Prescribing that Drives Medication Overload

What I'm Reading: The Language of Kindness

2018

What I'm Reading: Fixing America's Health Care System

Opinion | Decent Men Don't Do These Things

Opinion | How to Quantify a Nurse's 'Gut Feelings'

What I'm Reading: An Unflinching Exploration of Trauma and Obesity

2017

What I'm Reading: The Gaming of U.S. Health Care

Opinion | Breast Cancer Is Serious. Pink Is Not.

What I'm Reading: The Power of Conversation

Opinion | The Real Problem With the Health Care Bill

Abortion and a Woman's Centrality

How Mindfulness Can Be an Act of Self Care for Nurses