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
Category: Essay
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
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.