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: Selected writing, shortish
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
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.
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
First appeared in Littoral Medicine, November 10, 2014. It was reposted in KevinMD November 23, 2014.
Have you hugged your EMR, lately?
This first appeared in Littoral Medicine April 21, 2015. It was re-posted KevinMD.com July 2, 2015
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