Doyle and Beth Brown
Ann Marie and Jimmy passed each other in the hallway at TMH and shared this selfie with their mom.
Mary Beth Brown works with Danielle Brown( no relation), a standardized patient, as part of her PA curriculum.
Jimmy added that growing up, he and his father would go squirrel hunting, something he still enjoys.
“ I got my wife into it— and she’ s actually a better shot than me,” he said, adding she is currently a nurse at TMH and is pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at FSU’ s College of Nursing.
Fishing is another of Jimmy’ s hobbies, one that has become legendary at the College of Medicine— and people are still talking about it.
“ They told us this story when I took a tour of the college when I first got here and I said,‘ That was my brother!’ Mary Beth said.“ I called him and said they were still talking about it.”
What“ they” were talking about was the time two medical students decided to go fishing and then fry up their catch in a Learning Center for all their classmates— driving some faculty and staff out of the building.
“ We had just had an exam and had some downtime,” Jimmy said.“ We went down to St. Mark ' s National Wildlife Refuge and caught some mullet. My friend is the real fisherman, so he did most of the catching, and I just kind of helped him prepare them, and the plan was to cook for the classmates and whoever wanted some, and I think we forgot the rule about cooking in the LCs, and we were reminded when the frying fish stunk up the whole building.”
Although three of the Brown children have chosen medicine as a career, two have not and are successfully pursuing their own professions. The youngest, Sara Catherine, is enrolled at FSU-Panama City, pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering,
while the oldest, Bobby Lee Bulzer, works in the Florida House of Representatives in the IT Department as a network engineer.
Although they may not get together as frequently for family dinners— which Beth said was an important part of their family life— the Browns still enjoy gathering as frequently as possible. And, for Jimmy and Ann Marie, their odds of seeing each other frequently have increased, at least for the time being, as Ann Marie continues her residency at TMH.
“ On Jimmy’ s first week [ at Southern Medical Group ], I was on inpatient medicine,” Ann Marie said.“ As I was finishing up my rounds around seven, he was coming through and we would walk down the halls. I could tell it was him. We were all the way across. I couldn ' t see the face or anything. I could tell it was him by the way he was walking and the shape of his body. He ' s skinny. And I did like this [ gave him a little wave ]. He didn ' t see me. He got a little bit closer, and he saw me. He did the exact same thing. I thought it was so funny. We sent our mom a selfie on his first day of work when I saw him on rounds.”
In addition to serving as a county commissioner, Doyle runs his own septic tank business and works at Florida’ s Department of Agriculture. Beth has been a teacher for 32 years in Liberty County. They may not have any other children entering medical careers, but they, and the community in which they live, will have a trio of excellent and compassionate health care professionals to turn to when needed.
“ Our parents raised us with all of the love they could and raised us with God first, family second,” said Ann Marie.“ Everything else will fall into place afterwards, and I think that was invaluable to instill in us. I mean, I love my family very much.”
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