Writing

Research, columns, essays, and evidence reviews. Most of it circles the same questions: what does the evidence actually show, and what has medicine stopped noticing?

Peer-reviewed and reference

PubMed Thirty-three indexed publications
Evidence appraisal, the fragility index, informed consent, UTI diagnostics, D-dimer in pregnancy, thiamine, and public interest research in opioid treatment
The Merck Manual, Professional Edition Procedural chapters
Contributing author, including How To Do Anesthesia Procedures
Public Health Implementation of Test-to-Stay programming to minimize learning loss in a pre-K-8 school district
2022

Columns and editorial

Emergency Medicine News Editor-in-Chief, 2023 to present
Editorial direction for the leading independent news publication in emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine News InFocus
Clinical column, 2022 to present
Emergency Medicine News What to D.O.
Monthly evidence column on clinical controversies: headache, propofol, tricyclics for back pain, and the habits of evidence appraisal

Essays and public writing

The Philadelphia Inquirer An E.R. doctor’s call to action: Treat gun violence as an epidemic we can conquer
October 2017
High Times Cannabis Isn’t the Problem
On cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and harm reduction, August 2025
The DO Misinformation: A public health crisis DOs can address
October 2019
NBOME AI Isn’t Staffing the Fluorescent Hallways; People Are
On rural emergency medicine and the limits of automation, December 2025
Medscape Using Propofol for Difficult-to-Treat Headaches in the ED
With Robert Glatter, MD and Sergey Motov, MD
BellyMD Journal Thiamine and the gut-brain connection: what vitamin B1 actually does
July 2026

Evidence reviews

REBEL EM Nine evidence reviews
Migraine, lidocaine for renal colic, UTI diagnostics, D-dimer, thiamine, perichondritis, fall prevention
emDocs, KevinMD Clinical reviews and commentary
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, measles, and others

The wider record

Google Scholar Collected writing across the medical press
Hundreds of columns, evidence reviews, and commentaries beyond the peer-reviewed record, partially indexed on Google Scholar