Essay – Jay Baruch, MD

First drafts: Why healthcare professionals should study creative writing

Why creative writing skills serve as essential beside clinical skills in the care of my patients in the ER. Thrilled to write this piece for The Arnold P. Gold Foundation blog, May 16, 2014

Uneasy alliance: pain, opioids and trust

Appeared in Littoral Medicine January 13, 2016, posted again at KevinMD February 1, 2016

Writing and an emergency medicine life

appeared in Littoral Medicine April 3, 2016

Story seduction and the opioid crisis

Originally appeared in Littoral Medicine, May 11, 2016, posted again on KevinMD

Hug or Ugh

Article requires either personal or institutional subscription. Here is a sample from Project Muse

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.