Article published in BMJ Medical Humanities with my colleague Stacey Springs, PhD. This short blog post on the BMJ Medical Humanities website contains a short audio introducing the article.
Category: Selected writing, shortish
Loving an old dog and knowing when to let him go
Cognoscenti October 12, 2018
To talk about guns, let’s start with a grieving mother’s silence
Cognoscenti March 22, 2017
Caring for the caregiver in the emergency department
STATnews February 12, 2018
When death is imminent, end-of-life care decisions sometimes go out the window
STATnews December 14, 2017
Did I just feed an addiction? Or ease a man’s pain? Welcome to modern medicine’s moral cage fight
STATnews October 23, 2017
I’m an ambassador to nightmares. My medical training didn’t prepare me for that.
STATnews September 7, 2017
I was very grateful to have an edited version reprinted in the Boston Globe (Ideas section on Sunday, September 15, 2017)
I told my emergency medicine team to ‘move on’ after a horrific death. That was a mistake.
STATnews August 2, 2017
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