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Afro-Cuban Jazz and Helping Hands: Cuba’s Accessible Beat

Who needs Spanish when you've got a saxophone? A music-lover proves that disability access is…

Danny van LeeuwenApril 24, 2025

ePatient Musician Podcasts

Improvisation is Live Inspiration. Keep Trying.

Approaching my health as improv. Some stuff work at the moment; some don’t. Listen, learn,…

Danny van LeeuwenApril 18, 2021

Caregiver ePatient Musician Podcasts

Reading the Room. Lessons from the Clowns. Take 2

Learn from the clowns. Embrace failure, take a deep breath, laugh, cry, engage. Revisit chat…

Danny van LeeuwenMarch 7, 2021

ePatient Family man Musician Podcasts

Engaging with Sax – Good as I Am – Merry Holidays

Sometimes I wish I had fallen in love with the flute. It would be easier…

Danny van LeeuwenDecember 22, 2019

Advocate ePatient Podcasts

Seize Control, Cede Control as CEO of Your Health

I’m CEO of my health and I’m tired. I crave inspiration. I need a recharge.…

Danny van LeeuwenSeptember 29, 2019

Caregiver Clinician ePatient Family man Podcasts

Lessons from the Clowns When Going to the Doctor’s

What can the clowns can teach us as patients and caregivers about relaxing, reading the…

Danny van LeeuwenFebruary 3, 2019

ePatient Musician Written Only

What Do You Do for Fun?

Yes, you concerned readers, I'm still playing my baritone saxophone. I'm taking lessons every two…

Danny van LeeuwenJuly 29, 2018

Advocate ePatient Musician Written Only

I’m Gonna Quit

I'm ready to quit playing my horn. I can't seem to bring what I've learned…

Danny van LeeuwenJune 3, 2018

Advocate Caregiver Written Only

Reading the Room and Yourself

Sometimes I feel like I'm part of someone else's play. Just dropped in. I don't…

DannyFebruary 25, 2018

Caregiver Clinician Consumer ePatient Family man Written Only

From the Inside Looking Out

At the #PCORI2017 Annual Meeting, Alan Alda showed us a simple mirror improv exercise (remember…

DannyNovember 5, 2017