Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He is also Director of the Harvard Humanitarian…
I can guarantee that you would immediately recognize a STEMI patient and activated your cath lab and that you would quickly recognize and treat the classic signs of appendicitis in a patient. Would you be able to recognize the signs…
Over a decade ago, I was seated in the emergency department with a colleague when I inquired about another one of our physician co-workers I’d not seen in a while. “Oh, she’s on the Mommy Track,” my colleague said and…
When a family member becomes critically ill, we as physicians can experience a traumatic collision of our work life and personal life. In Dr. Maneesha Agarwal’s FIX17 talk, she shares her experience of dealing with a family medical crisis when…
Content warning: This piece deals with the subject of death. I have a white bear rule – don’t think about dead people before bed. I started this rule in residency, when I would finish a shift that often involved an…
Dear Jon, Don’t worry, this isn’t that kind of Dear John letter. We’ve been married seven years. We’ve had our ups and downs but overall it’s been good. We have three beautiful children. I look forward to many good years…
Even after all this time, the phone calls aren’t always easy to make. “Hi, Mrs. Smith, this is Dr. Kass at camp, don’t worry, everything is OK.” I usually get that out in one breath, then immediately transition to concrete…
This professional development column focuses on effective time management using a prioritization principle from Stephen R Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. To improve time management and productivity, Covey suggests that you plot all of your pending tasks…
Jennifer Beck-Esmay, MD 
Annahieta Kalantari, DO 
Michelle Finkel, MD 
Maneesha Agarwal, MD 
Katie Beck-Esmay 
Shannon McNamara, MD 
Sarah Sebby, DO 
Dara Kass, MD 
Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS