I was thrilled to write this piece for the Gold Humanism Blog, May 16, 2014
Month: April 2016
Hug or Ugh
Physician/Writers: Dual or duelling obligations
Physician/writers: dual or duelling responsibilities was originally published in the Spring, 2011 issue of Atrium, a one of a kind arts and humanities journal published out of the outstanding Medical Humanities and Bioethics program at Feinberg Northwestern School of Medicine. It was founded and edited by Katie Watson, who shepherded the rarest of species, a journal that demanded to be read from cover to cover. Sadly, Atrium had to shut it’s doors. I’m grateful this essay was given another life in MedPage.
Creative Writing as a Medical Instrument
Are CT scans ordered too often? Well consider the leafblower
This first appeared in Littoral Medicine, December 14, 2014 and it was reposted as “Are CT scans ordered too often? Well, consider the leaf blower,” KevinMD.com January 17, 2015
(Dis)comfort Measures
Defining the narrative of emergency care: the danger of Maureen Dowd
Have you hugged your EMR, lately?
Guilt + Time: My Enemies
This reflective piece appeared in the University of Toronto Medical Journal in March 2010. Originally published in Ars Medica, Spring, 2007
Dr. Douchebag: A Tale of the Emergency Department
Hastings Center Report 42;2012:9-10
Originally published in Hastings Center Report, an ethics journal, it was subsequently picked up by Medscape and became the most downloaded article for Medscape Emergency Medicine in 2012.