Pop Culture & Medicine
Television is where most Americans learn what a hospital is. So I review it like it matters — what The Pitt gets right, what The Resident got wrong — and I’ve consulted on scripts since 2016 so the fiction fails a little less. The same beat runs on camera: Untold Stories of the ER, Sex Sent Me to the ER, the TODAY Show, and a running Medscape series rating TV medicine’s accuracy.
Start hereBouncing Back: What ‘The Resident’ Got Right — Emergency Medicine News
FIX: FemInEM Idea Exchange · 2017 — Doctor Who? Doctor YOU: Maximize Your Media
How physicians can claim and maximize their own media presence.
In print
From the stage
[Social] Media and MedicineCal-AAEM Golden State Symposium · 2021
How I make a difference with social media: ACEP ConnectACEP Scientific Assembly · 2019
Tricks of the Trade: Clever techniques for procedures using commonly found ER resourcesTexMed · 2019
If MacGyver was an Emergency PhysicianACEP Scientific Assembly · 2017
Doctor Who? Doctor YOU: Maximize Your MediaFIX: FemInEM Idea Exchange · 2017On screen
The Pitt Season 2: EM Docs Tackle Tough Diagnoses (Part 3)Medscape · 2026The Pitt Season 2: EM Docs Rate Its Accuracy (Part 2)Medscape · 2026The Pitt Season 2: EM Docs Rate Its Accuracy (Part 1)Medscape · 2026Behind the Scenes of The Pitt: Depicting the Hard TruthsMedscape · 2025Featured Physician (Season 1: Episodes 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12)I Got Lucky: Survival Stories · 2021New Book Celebrates Real-Life SuperheroesTexas Today · 2021Local ER Doctor Publishes Children’s Book Celebrating Moms in MedicineSomething Good · 2021Fire in the Hole (Season 14, Episode 7)Untold Stories of the ER · 2020UAB Grad Student Writes Children’s Book Celebrating Moms in the Medical FieldCBS 42 · 2020Ponchos and Plexiglas? COVID-19 ‘MacGyver’ Clinical TipsMedscape · 2020More Emergency ‘MacGyver’ Tips for PhysiciansMedscape · 2019Temperature Rising (Season 13, Episode 7)Untold Stories of the ER · 2018Hooked (Season 13, Episode 5)Untold Stories of the ER · 2018Emergency ‘MacGyver’ Tips for PhysiciansMedscape · 2018Heeled! (Season 12, Episode 8)Untold Stories of the ER · 2016Routine Romance (Season 4, Episode 14)Sex Sent Me to the ER · 2016Spike Lee on Catching Controversy with ‘Chi-Raq’TODAY Show · 2015
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