GREGORY SCOTT BROWN, M.D.
GREGORY SCOTT BROWN, M.D.
Arrington Porter
...during my first interview for residency, right out of medical school, a seasoned physician with piercing blue eyes and a gray beard said to me, “I’ve read your application. Now tell me why you really want to become a psychiatrist.”
I regurgitated a résumé he already knew: my former life as a Juilliard music student, Rice University, Johns Hopkins, trips to China and South Africa. I ran through rewarding patient encounters from medical school. Contacts he might know at Harvard. Stories.
But I didn’t say the truth: Because I know what it feels like to be on the other side.
Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a mental health writer, and the author of The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life. A regular contributor for Men's Health and The Washington Post, Dr. Brown also co-hosts Friday Sessions, a popular Instagram Live series about mental health.
Dr. Brown is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, specialty training in general psychiatry at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, and he received an M.D. from the McGovern Medical School in Houston. Dr. Brown is an alumnus of Rice University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology and Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a post-baccalaureate premedical program. Prior to his transition to medicine, Dr. Brown studied music at The Juilliard School in New York.
Dr. Brown is a member of the American Psychiatric Association where he serves on the Council on Communications. His commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Men's Health, and The Washington Post, as well as on The Today Show, Live with Kelly and Mark, and the PBS News Hour.
Photography by Lenworth Johnson
Arrington Porter
...during my first interview for residency, right out of medical school, a seasoned physician with piercing blue eyes and a gray beard said to me, “I’ve read your application. Now tell me why you really want to become a psychiatrist.”
I regurgitated a résumé he already knew: my former life as a Juilliard music student, Rice University, Johns Hopkins, trips to China and South Africa. I ran through rewarding patient encounters from medical school. Contacts he might know at Harvard. Stories.
But I didn’t say the truth: Because I know what it feels like to be on the other side.
Photography by Lenworth Johnson
Gregory Scott Brown, M.D. is a psychiatrist, a mental health writer, and the author of The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life. A regular contributor for Men's Health and The Washington Post, Dr. Brown also co-hosts Friday Sessions, a popular Instagram Live series about mental health.
Dr. Brown is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, specialty training in general psychiatry at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, and he received an M.D. from the McGovern Medical School in Houston. Dr. Brown is an alumnus of Rice University, where he received a bachelor's degree in anthropology and Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a post-baccalaureate premedical program. Prior to his transition to medicine, Dr. Brown studied music at The Juilliard School in New York.
Dr. Brown is a member of the American Psychiatric Association where he serves on the Council on Communications. His commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Men's Health, and The Washington Post, as well as on The Today Show, Live with Kelly and Mark, and the PBS News Hour.