Neurologist and Writer
Four days into our honeymoon, my husband and I faced the end of our marriage, the end of our lives...
The New York Times, July 24, 2019
Medical school teaches us to examine, to research, to treat. We don’t learn to err and recover...
The New York Times, October 18, 2018
In case we forget, amidst the diapers and bottles, this is how we were before you were born. We were “Sara” and “Jeremy,” not “Mom” and “Dad.”...
The Boston Globe Magazine, March 30, 2018
Consider yourselves e-introduced. Saad is one of the Muslim refugees you wanted to bar from the United States. He resettled here in 2015, and now you’ll find him cruising the casino floor most evenings, headed to the kitchen to wash dishes...
The Huffington Post, March 21, 2018
Just as Geraldine was stubborn and exceptional in life, her family believed she would be exceptional in beating her prognosis....
The New York Times, October 24, 2017
The patient’s hair was styled with curls so stiff, they held her head a few inches up from her hospital pillow. She had painted her lips a shade of bright pink that exuded the confidence of age...
The New York Times, July 17, 2017