What happens when tech-driven medicine starts driving a wedge between us and the families we care for? 

World-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Alan R. Cohen joins Mary to pull back the curtain on four decades at top institutions like Boston Children’s and Harvard. Drawing from his memoir Comfort Always, Dr. Cohen breaks down how we reclaim the art of healing, balance hard truths with hope, and protect the human bond at the bedside.

Press play to discover how simple bedside shifts can transform patient care, reduce medical trauma, and restore the art of healing to your clinical practice starting today.

PS. Explore more of Dr. Alan R. Cohen's work on his website and grab a copy of his book, Comfort Always: Healing in the Age of Technology, on Amazon. 

What if the biggest barrier to humane healthcare isn't a lack of compassion, but a broken system that leaves clinicians without the time or tools to deliver emotionally safe care?

Imagine what happens when a pediatric nurse of 36 years decides she’s done watching healthcare fail our children’s emotional well being. From bedside ER trauma to founding a game-changing startup, DD Fritch is sitting down with Mary to reveal why our system is trapped in reactive crisis mode...

And how virtual child life specialists are quietly dismantling the stigma, reaching families in their hardest moments, and teaching kids the coping skills they need before a hospital room ever becomes necessary.

Press play to discover how simple shifts in emotional safety can drastically reduce trauma for the children in your care, and walk away with actionable strategies to advocate for more humane, human-centered pediatric support starting today.

PS. Want to connect with DD Fritch. CLICK HERE to discover more about her mission and how Hearts Connected is redefining pediatric emotional support.

One mom had the need for her daughter's feeding tube tools... Another mom, who had lost her son, had the means and wanted to pay it forward. The only thing missing between them was a bridge.

The trauma caused in pediatric care is not a resources problem - it’s a design and permission problem. We are not short on clinicians or parents who know how to make care less scary for kids; we are short on permission slips.

Wishful Wings is an official nonprofit foundation built to be that permission slip. Instead of expecting ideas to trickle down from top-down leadership, Wishful Wings inverts the model: resourcing, funding, and walking alongside the nurses, child life specialists, and parents who already know what needs to change.

PRESS PLAY to discover how we are uniting the idea, the experience, and the funding to rewrite pediatric care together.

P.S. Whether you have a bedside idea sitting on the back burner, skills to lend, or want to deploy giving where it makes an immediate impact - VISIT WISHFUL WINGS and see how you can be a part of it. 

What happens when twenty years on the frontlines turns a daily clinical headache into a nationwide healthcare solution?

In this special episode of Care Rewritten, Mary sits down for her very first guest interview with Katherine Stokes R.T. (R) (MR), founder of Spongie's Comfort. Katherine pulls back the curtain on leaving job security behind, pushing past the naysayers to build a tool nurses actually wanted, and how a solution-oriented mindset can completely reshape the status quo in healthcare.

Plus, Katherine drops a major announcement that may help you fund YOUR healthcare innovation ideas. 

So press play and discover how to turn your clinical observations into funded solutions.

Want to connect with Katherine and Spongie's Comfort? Check out their website here or follow them on Instagram, LinkedIn, or Facebook. 

PS. Have an idea to make any part of healthcare better? CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR THE HEART OF HEALTHCARE INNOVATION AWARD before applications close!

What if we showed up more like toddlers when we clocked into our care units?  When two developmental researchers set up an experiment in 2006, they discovered something extraordinary: toddlers as young as fourteen months will spontaneously jump in to help a struggling adult—without being asked, and without needing a reward. 

It's just proof that we arrive on this planet naturally hardwired to participate, to help, and to feel agency. Yet the moment a child steps into a hospital, the environment is structurally designed to strip every ounce of that agency away, positioning their body as an object to be managed.

That's why, in this Micro Moments episode, we are connecting a simple grocery store moment with Mary's two-year-old to the deeper science of intrinsic empathy. 

Press play to discover what it actually takes to make humane, trauma-informed care the path of least resistance on every unit.

P.S. Ready to stop relying on luck and start building these felt-safety frameworks directly into your unit's workflow? BOOK A CALL so we can chat about scaling what your frontline champions are already doing into system-wide defaults.

The people driving the most meaningful change in healthcare right now aren't sitting in C-suite offices with massive budgets...

They are on the front lines, staring directly at the care they deliver. But most of them are waiting for someone to give them permission to begin.

It's time for us to redefine what success in healthcare innovation actually looks like and understand why action - not just the final measured outcome - is the real win. Even quiet wall inside every clinician that decides what’s possible, explores how scrappy frontline champions are using simple play tools to transform patient care, and exposes why the biggest waste in healthcare isn't failed experiments, but isolated ones. 

Press play to discover how unlocking the authority you already hold can turn a simple bedside idea into scaled systemic change.

PS. Are you a frontline champion ready to take action alongside a community of fellow changemakers? JOIN THE THRIVE NETWORK (You'll get a special 50% code at checkout to get started for the price of a single fancy coffee a month!)

When people attack your credentials instead of your evidence, it isn't about your competence - it is about their ego.

Even after centuries of historical change makers speaking out against preventable medical trauma, we still find ourselves facing the exact same "permission fight" today. So we're pulling back the curtain on how human ego and hierarchy continue to stand between proven improvements and better patient care and how attacks on your standing are actually proof that your data is disrupting the status quo. 

Press play to learn why the hot flush creeping up your neck before you speak up isn't a sign to back down - it's the sign to push through to create the change that healthcare desperately needs. 

P.S. Ready to connect with other modern day changemakers who leave their egos at the door to reduce medical trauma? JOIN THE THRIVE NETWORK

In November of 1999, a single report landed in Washington and sent shockwaves through healthcare by putting a number to a crisis that had been happening silently for decades. Nothing about the medicine changed that month...

What changed was that someone finally said it out loud in a way that made it impossible to ignore, lighting the match for a global movement.

We're zooming all the way out to examine how massive healthcare movements actually catch fire with the six vital ingredients needed to turn an invisible struggle into permanent policy. 

Press play to discover what it actually takes for those of us on the front lines to build the kindling that forces the system to make room.

P.S. Ready to pioneer a practical felt safety framework on your healthcare unit? CLICK HERE TO BOOK A CALL WITH MARY so we can chat about co-developing real world solutions for your floor.

If we’ve been a little quiet on our end lately, it’s not because we took a breather - it’s because something massive has been brewing behind the scenes, and six years in, this movement is officially hitting a tipping point.

In this Mid-Year Review, we're pulling back the curtain and inviting you to take a peek at the quiet shifts happening inside both The Butterfly Pig and the Innovative Care Institute that are fundamentally changing how hospital teams prioritize care, fund preparation tools, and approach clinical innovation.

Press play to hear what momentum looks like from the inside... including 3D printers, family operations, active hiring, and more new projects in the works. 

P.S. Want to join the team? We're actively laying the groundwork for a non-profit arm to ensure hospitals without traditional budgets can access these vital preparation tools. If you or someone you know is interested in serving on our non-profit board, CLICK HERE TO APPLY!

Nurse turnover, safety incidents rooted in pediatric fear, and dismal patient satisfaction scores are often treated by hospital leadership as the "inevitable costs of being on the road." But they aren't inevitable at all.

In this Micro Moments episode - inspired by a near-miss on the freeway on the way to Mary's two year old’s developmental assessment - we're breaking down how healthcare systems act like drivers cruising around with a smashed-in trunk, using bungee cords to hold things together while ignoring their own driving behavior.

From refusing to budget for full-time staff positions while freely paying tens of hours in overtime out of a separate line item, the damage we see repeating across our units isn't "just happening." It is actively being created by the way the system is designed to drive.

Press play to learn why the "crunched car" in your hospital tells you everything about system behavior, and how identifying your unit's turn signal can prevent the next crash before it happens.

PS. Find your system's turn signal and stop slapping bungee cords on structural issues 👉🏻 TAKE THE ASSESSMENT HERE