Jun 12, 2014 | Aging, Public Medical Communication, Writing
In the last two days I have received several emails about WEAAD. Yup. WEAAD… My response: As it turned out, people were sending me these WEAAD emails because they want to publicize a worldwide (the “W) day devoted to an important cause that is right up my alley...
Apr 12, 2013 | Aging, News and Updates, Writing
In the New York Times review of A History of the Present Illness, Abigail Zugar noted that I write “lovely, nuanced description” and have joined “the ranks of those immortalizing the small, realistic retails of modern medical care.” That was...
Mar 18, 2013 | Doctoring, Public Medical Communication, Writing
aka Ten Doctor Writers Everyone Should Read Let me just start by acknowledging that top 10 lists are: absurd, biased, intriguing, powerful, useless, helpful, and ubiquitous – depending of course on the topic, its author, and you, its reader. Some of this author’s...
Feb 3, 2013 | News and Updates, Public Medical Communication, Writing
The Op-Ed is an interesting beast, not least because that shorthand is often thought to mean “opinion or editorial” when in fact it means “opposite the editorial page” (on that perhaps dying artifact known as a newspaper), and as it turns out...
Jan 30, 2013 | News and Updates, Writing
It was a beautiful winter Sunday in San Francisco as we crossed the bridge to Marin… The store in Corte Madera is huge and includes a cafe, a great reading space… and so many BOOKS… Of course, I was there to read from A History of the Present...
