Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers

Most of the stories in the collection had been previously published in print and online journals. Some had been appreciably altered, hopefully for the better, before publication in the book.

“Breathing,” Other Voices
“Hedging,” Inkwell
“Dissections,” Another Toronto Quarterly
“Accident Room,” Ars Medica
“Road Test,” Segue
“House Call,” “Bedrest,” and “Frozen,” Fetishes
“House Call,” reprint Issues Magazine
“A Little Heart,” Salt River Review
“Laceration Repair,” Journal of General Internal Medicine

Recent and Selected Work

Fiction
Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
“These edgy, heartfelt, wryly humorous stories... tell us what it’s really like to doctor, to patient, to suffer and to redeem.”
--Samuel Shem author of The House of God and Mount Misery.
"Soft Landings"
Eclectica Magazine
"Empowerment Centers"
The Battered Suitcase
"Comfortable"
Hamilton Stone Review 17;2009
"Fortunata"
The Bryant Literary Review 9; 2008: 24-50
"Avignon"
"Tattoo Highway" Volume #16: Sidekicks & Fellow Travelers
Nonfiction
The Story Always Comes First
NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine blog
Why Must Pain Patients Be Found Deserving of Treatment?
Virtual Mentor: AMA Journal of Ethics 10;2008:5-12.
This I Believe WRNI