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My latest article:
"Branching Out, Looking In" in Four Seasons Magazine, July 2021 issue. A horseback trip through the wild mountains of Kamchatka gives perspective on how heart attacks are diagnosed.
Washington Post
New York Times
"Branching Out, Looking In" in Four Seasons Magazine, July 2021 issue. A horseback trip through the wild mountains of Kamchatka gives perspective on how heart attacks are diagnosed.
Washington Post
- "Some Patients are in Pain. Some Just Want Drugs" in The Washington Post, Outlook, March 9, 2018. With a national epidemic of opioid misuse, a physician asks: to prescribe or not to prescribe the strongest painkillers.
- "Learning to Love the Secret Language of Urine" in The Washington Post, Opinions, November 23, 2016. Of all the bodily fluids I learned about in medical school, urine fascinated me the most.
New York Times
- "Learning from Fungi: Of Medicine and Mushrooms" in The New York Times, Sunday Review section. October 4, 2014. Diagnosing disease and identifying wild edible mushrooms both use the same ancient processes of cognition that make us human.
- "The Bodies that Guard our Secrets" in The New York Times, Sunday Review section. April 26, 2014. Kosher meat and the diagnosis of cancer meet in this medical student's trip to a slaughterhouse.
- "The Fight for the Right to Eat Seal Blubber" in Slate, Oct 9, 2017. A nursing home in Arctic Alaska battles against the federal government and wins the right to serve traditional Inupiat foods to its elders.
- "How Medical School Taught Me to Love Liver" in Slate, August 30, 2016. How learning all about the liver in medical school taught me to enjoy eating chopped liver.
- "Broad Beans' Peculiar Side Effects" in Discover, May 2016 Issue. A boy's eyes are the bright yellow color of a highlighter marker. A thorough history gives the diagnosis.
- "A Battle to Breathe" in Discover, July/August 2015 Issue. An infant in an Arctic village struggles to get air into his lungs. Without the necessary medical equipment, is diagnosis futile?
- "The Mycobiome" in Fungi Magazine, Winter 2016. Human stool and its fungal inhabitants may hold the key to better understand human health and disease.
- "A Poison Becomes a Means to Cure" in Fungi Magazine, Winter 2015. Phalloidin, a toxic component of the poisonous death cap mushroom, is helping to cure cancer.
- “A Common Mold, an Uncommon Killer” in Fungi Magazine. The death of a patient due to overwhelming infection with a common everyday fungus leads to a story of humankind's ancient immunological dance with an everyday mold.
- "An Ancient Scourge Lives On" in India Abroad, Feb 21, 2014, page M8. Abdul lives in modern Kolkata, India but suffers from leprosy - an ancient disease. He receives help from the charity Calcutta Rescue.
- "In Search of Koryak Culture". Russian Life Vol 56, No. 2. Number 553. Montpelier, VT: March/April 2013, pgs. 48-54. A traveler on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula searches for traditional Koryak culture in the monumental sociopolitical changes of post-Soviet times.
POETRY
- “Just Acting” in Annals of Internal Medicine. 21 August 2012;157(4):289.
- “Dead Inside” in Science Poetry, published by Neil Harding McAlister and Zara McAlister in Port Perry, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
- “Seasons” in “For There is Work to be Done: Poetry and Commentary” in Journal of Medical Humanities Vol. 32, Number 3/September 2011.
- "Hungry Pathologists" won Honorable Mention in the William Carlos Williams Poetry Contest 2010, hosted by the Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Department of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy