JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚

Award-winning author of #feminist medical thrillers/suspense, essayist, shiner of light in dark places

📘The Algorithm Will See You Now (spec #AI medical thriller)
📘The Committee Will Kill You Now (hist medical suspense & prequel to The Algorithm Will See You Now)

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2026-04-18 18:59:32 UTC

A perfect loaf for your #caturday
#cats #catsofmastodon
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2026-03-08 05:21:49 UTC

Goodnight mastodon. Sharing this sweet bonus #caturday pic tonight for anyone who might need it
Grateful for #cats #catsofmastodon
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2026-02-15 20:35:47 UTC

Sometimes #writing means three years later finally figuring out the first paragraph of your #WIP
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #amrevising

2026-02-05 04:34:38 UTC

Whoever you need my cat to glare at today, I got you
#cats #catsofmastodon #caturdayeveryday
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2026-01-19 03:58:31 UTC

Once again @npub1fdr…lvhs with a brilliant essay about #AI
(The part about AI in healthcare happens to pretty much be the premise of my novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now)
“The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.”
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
by Cory Doctorow
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
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2026-01-05 18:05:55 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115843034322703730
@npub1fdr…lvhs explains the fallacies of #AI in #healthcare better than anyone. His second point below is the theme of my novel The Algorithm Will See You Now
#note1r8r…8xf3

2025-12-27 18:21:32 UTC

Happy #caturday!
#cats #catsofmastodon
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2025-12-25 16:47:52 UTC

Mostly I post about writing stuff here but occasionally I post about medicine. Today I’m moved to try to express how my patients restore my faith in humanity. Yesterday, Christmas Eve, I was running very behind in clinic. Many of my patients were very sick and needed extra time. By the time I saw my last patient, they had been waiting quite awhile. But there was no air of frustration when I walked in. Instead I was greeted with a warm smile, calm aura, and at the end of the visit a small gift (of no monetary value - I’m obligated to state). When we wrapped up, the clinic was empty, lights half off, staff had long gone home. After, I sat in the deserted, quiet clinic, reflecting on how every patient wished me a happy holiday, no matter what their health situation was, and how utterly humbling it is that someone in the midst of their illness would take time and effort to bring a gift (which is never expected or needed). I wish somehow to beam this genuine, deep connective, caring aspect of humanity back out into the world. Arriving home very late, my kids are now old enough to understand mom is needed by many people at work, and they made the Christmas cookies themselves. But I didn’t feel guilty this year. I just felt grateful. For my family, my patients. Take care of each other out there and happy holidays to my mastodon family here ❤️

2025-11-16 18:30:32 UTC

#silentsunday #birds #birdphotography
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2025-11-11 20:53:15 UTC

Standoff 😂
#cats #dogs #catsofmastodon #dogsofmastodon
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2025-11-02 21:38:54 UTC

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If you prefer to order paperback📚, my publisher is offering 20% off orders direct from their site🥳
✨Use promo code SEASON20 now through Jan 31, 2026 at the links below✨
#fedibookfair #fedibooks #books #bookstodon #indieauthor #thrillerbooks #medicalthrillers #booksale #bookpromotion #authorsofmastodon #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity
https://www.blackrosewriting.com/thrillers/p/thealgorithmwillseeyounow?rq=Lycette
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2025-11-02 21:10:54 UTC

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My 2nd book was published Nov 2023:
THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW is a historical medical #suspense
Logline: Based on the true-life history of dialysis rationing in 1960s U.S., a medical intern in 1992 Seattle uncovers a shocking secret of 30 yrs prior and has to choose: shoulder his father’s devastating legacy or create his own daring future
Tagline: A hospital divided against itself cannot stand
2025 IRDA Winner: Socially Conscious Fiction
#fedibookfair #books
https://www.amazon.com/Committee-Will-Kill-You-Now-ebook/dp/B0CFM6VZS7

2025-11-02 20:51:30 UTC

Hi #fedibookfair!
My first book was published in March 2023. THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is a near-future #speculative #thriller set in Seattle
Pitch: Minority Report meets Grey’s Anatomy
Tagline: Be careful what you code for
Kirkus Reviews Indies Worth Discovering
2024 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist
2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalist
#Ebook now $.99 on #kindle! Free on #kindleunlimited
#books #bookstodon #fedibooks
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BLD16W7T/

2025-10-19 15:45:31 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-09-14 15:57:31 UTC

#SilentSunday #nature #naturephotograpy
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2025-08-23 16:13:16 UTC

Happy #caturday
#cats #catsofmastodon
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2025-08-16 16:02:56 UTC

At least there are #cats
#caturday #catsofmastodon
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2025-07-29 15:44:21 UTC

Now this is brilliant writing:
From @npub1qmg…s6k5:
“Strole is executive director of the…Coalition for Radical Life Extension, one of a cluster of for-profit…entities devoted to helping people achieve immortality founded by Strole and two ‘immortalist’ business partners. Of the three co-founders, only Strole, who is in his 70s, is still alive”
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr
#charlatans #rfkjr #medmastodon

2025-07-28 18:46:10 UTC

I tried to type “congrats!” in a DM and autocorrect changed it to “custard!” and tbh the nonsensical nature of it feels about right 🤦‍♀️
#Monday

2025-07-24 15:11:04 UTC

Every time I see a headline like this, I recall the literary agents who told me my book, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW, a near-future medical thriller about the hidden dangers of AI put in charge of healthcare*, was “too unrealistic” for the market…until I found a small press who immediately grasped the importance of it and published it in 2023🙏
*but it’s not all gloom and doom, it’s also a story about grief, hope, and forgiveness 💫
#books #bookstodon #ai #healthcare #indieauthor #MedMastodon
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2025-05-18 22:51:25 UTC

👋oncologist here, popping on to say that stage 4 prostate cancer is not a death sentence, and there are generally well-tolerated treatments that can work well, in general, for years, just as in many other chronic diseases. Every time a celebrity or public figure is diagnosed with cancer, I observe my patients to panic over what is reported in the media. I hope the media will respect President Biden’s and his family’s privacy - he doesn’t owe an explanation of his medical situation to the media unless he wants to talk about it
#prostatecancer #JoeBiden #medmastodon

2025-05-14 01:41:54 UTC

This pic my son took of our cat seems to encapsulate things pretty well right now
#cats #catsofmastodon #ScreamingIntoTheVoid
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2025-05-11 18:15:46 UTC

#SilentSunday (bunny cloud)
#clouds #cloudphotography
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2025-04-03 02:45:30 UTC

Thank goodness for #cats
#catsofmastodon #caturdayeveryday
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2025-03-18 04:31:15 UTC

I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the infrastructure needed to attain the knowledge for these treatment plans bring intentionally dismantled
#MedMastodon #healthcare #science #dismantling

2025-02-27 20:28:48 UTC

Public portal. You know what to do, mastodon
#diversity #equity #inclusion #education #antifascism #standuptohate
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2025-02-13 17:45:38 UTC

All of my patients have a place in my ❤️, but the young women, many of them young mothers in their 20s and 30s, who died of cervical cancer, now preventable with the HPV vaccine, are etched in my soul. Cervical cancer commonly causes awful pain & bleeding before leading to death. We were close to eradicating this horrendous cancer. Now that’s gone poof thanks to the cowards who voted to confirm #rfkjr
*HPV vaccine also prevents head&neck, penile & anal cancers
**I’m also deeply worried about the increased risk now of deaths & disability by other viruses, but cervical cancer deaths in young women being vaccine-preventable is vastly under-recognized & underreported, so in my niche as an oncologist I chose to post about this
#MedMastodon #vaccines #VaccinesSaveLives #CervicalCancer #cervicalcancerawareness

2025-02-05 04:34:35 UTC

A small ask: pls don’t send portal messages to your doctors telling them they’re lazy (or other rude things). Most of us aren’t given time in our day to respond to patient messages & we do them on our own time after hrs. Hours that could be spent w/our families or doing normal human things like, say, eating or sleeping. #Science is under attack & we’re still showing up for our patients. We know the system’s broken & we want it fixed as much as you. Pls remember we’re #human too❤️
#MedMastodon

2025-02-02 00:22:43 UTC

I wrote this in November 2022. I’m not going to say I tried to tell you, but I did try…I even wrote a whole book …
In this post written back then, I outlined my reasons for leaving (then) Twitter and joining Mastodon, and the reasons I started writing my first book THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW in 2016 (published in 2023)
“Billionaires and their biased algorithms taking over social media are only the start”
What If Elon Musk Was In Charge Of Your Healthcare
https://jenniferlycette.com/what-if-elon-musk-was-in-charge-of-your-healthcare/
#books #bookstodon #healthcare #ElonMusk #MedMastodon

2025-02-01 17:06:11 UTC

As a physician from a family of pilots, I think a lot about parallels between #healthcare & the #aviationindustry
Both have implemented complex #safety systems to prevent the kind of never event that happened just a few days ago
Both are also chronically understaffed, running on a razor’s edge
Why? Profits
The❓we should be asking: if there aren’t enough air traffic controllers at most airports for the # of flights, why not decrease the # of flights until there are?
#peopleoverprofits

2025-02-01 16:49:40 UTC

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All of the Fediverse is welcome!

2025-02-01 04:26:34 UTC

I wish #mastodon was a country and we could all go there

2025-01-17 16:13:22 UTC

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2025-01-17 15:58:45 UTC

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This has taken the joy out of my initial celebration at the news. We remain the land of #misogyny 😞

2024-12-25 03:24:04 UTC

I worked yesterday and today. My kids (teens) made the cookie dough and cookies on their own tonight while I sat near them and just absorbed the vibes. Then they helped wrap gifts. I’m not pretending I’m not exhausted. To moms of toddlers and younger kids, it gets easier ❤️
#parenting

2024-12-15 17:38:15 UTC

#SilentSunday #pnw #mountainphotography
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2024-12-09 06:23:20 UTC

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Also, if you like speculative thrillers, my first book THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is my attempt to use the lens of fiction to examine what might happen in the near-future if we let algorithms take the decision-making away from human doctors...and one young surgeon's journey to rediscover her hope and humanity while racing against the clock to save her teen patient's life...
As an indie author with a small press, I could always use more reads and reviews, if this kind of book is your jam
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Will-See-You-Now-ebook/dp/B0BLD16W7T/
#healthcare #algorithms #bookstodon

2024-12-09 06:15:24 UTC

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Wow, I am overwhelmed by the responses. I'm sorry I can't respond to each one individually.
Instead, I'm going to link to some of ProPublica's (@npub1qmg…s6k5) journalism pieces on these topics because they do the deep dives that I can't explain in a single post:
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims
https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance

2024-12-08 20:44:10 UTC

Here's a common "peer-to-peer" conversation I have repeatedly with the #insurance companies as an oncologist:
Me: I want to appeal your denial of my patient's PET scan
Them: Sorry, PET scan isn't on our approved list
Me: You approved it last time, and it's a standard-of-care that the patient have a repeat PET scan to assess if their treatment is working
Them: Oh, we approved it last time?
[much hemming and hawing while they verify this]
Me: By the way, are you a board-certified oncologist?
Them: [again much hemming and hawing, and only when I insist do they tell me their name and credentials (and about 95% of the time they aren't an oncologist)]
Me: Let me make sure I have the spelling of your name correct for the chart so I can make a note of who is denying the necessary medical care for my patient
Them: [Finds a way to approve the PET scan]
And scene
(many times a month)
#MedMastodon #healthcare #healthinsurance #healthcareisahumanright #cancer #oncology

2024-12-01 15:18:07 UTC

#SilentSunday #hummingbird #birdphotography
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2024-11-20 01:51:56 UTC

I don’t think the general public in the U.S. is prepared for what these appointments mean. We already as oncologists have to often fight the insurance companies to get our patients the latest evidence-based cancer treatments. My heart weeps for what is to come. I am shooketh
#healthcare #darktimes #MedMastodon

2024-11-19 05:12:58 UTC

I love that the bullies in my life will never figure out mastodon

2024-11-13 14:47:44 UTC

Something we’re taught as physicians is that when talking w/ a distressed patient, you can’t meet #emotion with information
You have to meet emotion w/ acknowledgement & validation. Only then can the emotion fade & the brain receive information
Just thinking about this in context of the U.S. election
Maybe campaigns need to start employing experts on human emotion & behavior, not only information
Especially when #fascism harnesses that worst of human emotions (hate)
#DontLetHateWin

2024-11-03 16:36:55 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-10-31 17:07:44 UTC

I wrote this two years ago, but it might still be the scariest #blogpost I've ever written
What if Elon Musk Was in Charge of Your Healthcare
#halloween #scary #billionaire #elonmusk #oligarch #healthcare #algorithms #MedMastodon #WritingCommunity
https://jenniferlycette.com/what-if-elon-musk-was-in-charge-of-your-healthcare/

2024-10-31 15:16:55 UTC

Listen, #healthcare is so broken. I’ve been a rural oncologist for a decade, and the number of people I meet now only coming to care when the cancer is at advanced stage are overwhelming. The reduction in preventive care & screening since COVID-19 has cost people’s lives. When I think about RFK and how this already dire situation would worsen, I wonder how I would even be able to continue to practice. It would break me. Make no mistake, healthcare is on the ballot too. Please #VoteBlue #harris

2024-10-29 14:08:59 UTC

I’ve been thinking about the stamina #Harris has. Interview after appearance after speech after rally. And she must not show a crack or the media will pounce on her. She is the epitome of strength, grace & resilience. I’m grateful to her and her campaign. I hope #voters will show up for her the way she is for us. These are just my morning thoughts as I struggle w/ the #dread of our current reality, as a parent, as a #rural physician, as a woman. Thank you #mastodon for being a place of #hope

2024-10-25 16:25:39 UTC

It’s hard to put into words how it feels to be a woman in a high-functioning profession in the U.S. right now finding out half the men around us want to see us “get a spanking” for being good at our jobs
When they’re saying the quiet stuff out loud now and crowds are cheering for it
I could save a million lives from cancer (I’m a cancer doctor) and they’d rather see me in the kitchen
The worst part is knowing even some male patients whose lives I saved feel this way
We must #VoteBlue

2024-10-02 02:20:15 UTC

I couldn't stomach watching that pathetic excuse for a (hu)man debating #Walz tonight, so I donated to #MastodonForHarris in the hopes that after the election, I never have to see him again Join me: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
@npub1uqz…sxyt

2024-09-29 15:03:03 UTC

#SilentSunday #dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-09-12 01:53:34 UTC

When your over-70 white man patient says “all my doctors are women now, and I plan to keep it that way. Just like I want all my presidents to be women from now on” 🥰
#harris #harris2024 #heforshe #hope