Physician · educator · founder

Medicine is a human story.

I’m Dr. Patrick Beeman—a dual board-certified OB/Gyn and addiction medicine physician creating more humane care, clearer medical education, and health media with a pulse.

Yes, AI helped build this website. No, it is not licensed to practice medicine in Ohio—or anywhere else, despite its confidence.

Father of six; Dual-board-certified; OB/Gyn + addiction medicine; U.S. Air Force veteran; Founder, InsideTheBoards; Chief Question Officer (a real title); AI power user; Philosophy MA (still asking why); Former logic professor; Music performance → philosophy → medicine; Podcast-network builder; Chief Email Officer (actual title); 2,000+ board questions written or edited; Medutainment practitioner; Pop-punk adjacent; bioethically grounded; AI-assisted, human-responsible; Serious credentials. Many side quests.

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About a 90% accurate representation of the real Dr. Beeman. The other 10% is AI’s artistic license. The caption changes daily; the portrait changes only after I approve it.

Care with dignityStories that change mindsAI-assisted, human-responsibleNot medical advice

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What brings you by?

Clinical practice

Expert care.
Zero judgment.

Good medicine starts with listening. My clinical work centers on evidence-based care that respects the whole person—and the dignity every patient brings into the room.

Addiction medicineObstetrics & gynecologyWomen’s mental healthRestorative reproductive medicine

Future practice information

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Continuing care and records · Middleburg Heights

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If you may be experiencing a medical emergency, call 911. This website—and its unusually enthusiastic autocomplete—does not provide medical advice or establish a physician–patient relationship.

Patient reviews · AI remix

Kind words.
Strange wardrobe.

The source reviews are real. The wording below is intentionally not verbatim. Every Monday, AI dresses a rotating set of patient feedback in a different literary outfit—without adding new clinical claims.

This week’s editionHaiku

Seventeen syllables. Zero waiting-room magazines.

Kindness + brilliance★★★★★

Kindness meets bright thought Compassion walks with brilliance Best doctor, they wrote

Source: WebMD · Nov. 2021

Transparency note: These are creative AI paraphrases of public reviews selected for their positive feedback—not direct quotations or a complete review feed. The AI is a copy editor wearing a funny hat, not a clinician. Reviewer names are omitted, no reviewer relationship is implied, and individual experiences differ. Use each source link to read the review in its original context.

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Submitted privately, reviewed by a human, stripped of reviewer and patient-identifying details, and published as image cards only after approval.

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Recent creative work · the side-quest desk

Recently, in the
beautiful mess.

The polished medical work has its own section. This is where home projects, family experiments, serious ideas, music-adjacent adventures, and videos that escaped the group chat get to live.

Latest-ish
Ars Longa MediaVideo · Aug 4, 2026

Does Addictive Screen Use Raise Youth Suicide Risk? | AMJC

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Ars Longa MediaVideo · Aug 4, 2026

1 in 4 Adults Using Prescription Stimulants Report Misuse | AMJC

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Ars Longa MediaVideo · Aug 4, 2026

How to Keep Up With Addiction Medicine Research | AMJC

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The Beeman's WorldShort · Jul 24, 2026

Landscape and Animals at the Beeman Manor | Home Evolution

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The Beeman's WorldShort · Jul 23, 2026

Home Evolution Episode 12: Indoor Pool | Beeman's World

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The Beeman's WorldShort · Jul 22, 2026

Our Dining Room Went From Okay to Palatial | Home Evolution Ep. 11

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Ars Longa MediaVideo · Oct 5, 2025

Pregnancy in Space Part 3: Reproduction Future | Code Periwinkle: Women’s Health for Men (and Women)

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Ars Longa MediaShort · Oct 5, 2025

Pregnancy in Space Part 2: Circadian Chaos | Code Periwinkle: Women's Health for Men (and Women)

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Ars Longa MediaShort · Oct 5, 2025

Pregnancy in Space Part 1: Radiation Effects | Code Periwinkle: Women's Health for Men (and Women)

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Ars Longa MediaVideo · Sep 11, 2025

Prenatal Testing and Diagnosis (Catholic Edition) | Women's Health for Men (and Women)

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InsideTheBoardsVideo · Aug 30, 2022

Addiction 101: USMLE Question Breakdowns with Dr. Corey Waller

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InsideTheBoardsVideo · Aug 30, 2022

Addiction 101: Benzodiazepines

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This shelf checks all three channels and the featured playlist for new uploads, so the recent work stays recent without anyone remembering to update the website. A small miracle of modern plumbing. The plumbing is neither sentient nor licensed.

The writing drawer

A few things I wrote before algorithms learned to finish sentences.

Selected essays on medicine, conscience, autonomy, and the questions that refuse to behave like multiple choice.

Browse the full publication archive

Three channels. One featured playlist. One medically inadvisable number of ideas.

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Selected work

Health ideas,
made alive.

Projects built to inform, entertain, and move health culture forward—through stories, sound, video, and genuinely useful education.

Consulting & collaboration

Let’s make something worth paying attention to.

I partner with healthcare organizations, educators, creators, and founders who want to communicate with more clarity, humanity, and imagination.

  • 01Health media and content strategy
  • 02Medical education and learning products
  • 03Speaking, interviews, and subject-matter expertise
  • 04Creative direction and physician-creator partnerships

AI is welcome in the room. Human judgment still has the final cut, the malpractice insurance, and the opposable thumbs.

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A little about me

Clinician by training.
Builder by nature.

I trained in obstetrics and gynecology through the Wright State University and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base combined program, then served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. Today, my work moves between the clinic, the studio, and the classroom.

I founded InsideTheBoards and Ars Longa Media because complex medical ideas deserve more than dry delivery. The thread through all of it is simple: treat people like people.

Outside the neat columns of a CV: family, Catholic intellectual life, music, American history, architecture, and hands-on building. The route from music performance to philosophy to medicine makes more sense in retrospect; the number of concurrent projects does not.

Did I use AI to help make this website? Absolutely. I also use spellcheck, electricity, and people smarter than me. Responsibility for the final result remains stubbornly human.

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The unofficial operating manual

Serious about the work.
Human about the people.

Field note / 001

Earnest about humane medicine. Unserious about medical bureaucracy. A short guide to how I tend to think, build, and occasionally overcomplicate a perfectly good Tuesday.

01Clinical setting

People before process.

The aim: put safety first, explain the reasoning candidly, and help people understand and participate in decisions.

02Communication test

Make the complicated understandable.

If the work sounds like committee-generated wallpaper, it is not finished. Clarity should do more than arrive wearing a lanyard.

03Systems rule

Make heroics optional.

Sustainable beats theatrical. The goal is work that survives an ordinary Tuesday without demanding a cape.

04Educational route

Keep the strange intersections.

Music performance → philosophy → medicine → media: an education arc that looks irrational until it suddenly doesn’t.

05Official-ish title

Ask the next question.

Chief Question Officer is a real title—and alarmingly accurate. Good ideas should survive at least one thoughtful follow-up.

06Current condition

Many side quests. Fewer open loops.

A useful idea still gets a hearing. It no longer automatically gets a launch date, a podcast feed, and its own logo.

Ars longa, vita brevis.Life is short. Art endures. Browser tabs multiply.

The algorithm made me say this

Did I use AI to create this website? Yes.

PersonalEducationalEntertainmentNot medical advice

That should be enough to tell you that anything hosted or linked here is for personal, educational, and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

Views are my own. Nothing here establishes a physician–patient relationship, replaces care from your own clinician, or suggests that a language model should be allowed within fifty feet of a prescription pad.

Nothing herein implies endorsement by MedMark Treatment Centers, BayMark Health Services, Veranova Health, Cornerstone Pregnancy Services, the United States Government, the Catholic Church, the Founding Fathers, my wife, Dr. Elizabeth Shelley, the people of Lorain County, or any other group I’m involved in but forgot to mention here.

If I accidentally omitted your institution from this non-endorsement, please feel equally non-endorsed.

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