Essays in Books

FORTHCOMING:

"Stroppy Sevens" (2026)

"Work on Professionalism" (2024)

"What We Call Grief" (2022)

“Maybe Medicine Was a Mistake” (2018)

Essays in Medical Journals

Are You Bereaved?

Journal of Clinical Oncology (2025)

In this essay, I reflect on a grieving father's question about her own bereavement.

I Spy

Journal of the American Medical Association (2024)

In this narrative medicine essay, I describe how a young boy’s mother tells and revises her son’s story through photography.

Escalating

Academic Pediatrics (2023)

The Asides

Journal of Palliative Medicine (2023)

Hold This Moment in Your Head and in Your Heart

Journal of Graduate Medical Education (2021)

The Troublemaker

Lancet Respiratory Medicine (2021)

The Capri Sun Trick

Academic Pediatrics (2020)

Terrible Twos

Families, Systems, & Health (2020)

Moonshine

Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine (2020)

Stroppy Sevens

Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (2019)

B-ball and Bread Crumbs

Academic Medicine (2019)

Who’s With Me?

Academic Medicine (2018)

“I Kinda Like Just to Talk”

Academic Medicine (2017)

Perspectives