As a physician, I often forget how much I know.  But there are things that remind me just how different our own experience as doctors is from those who don’t spend their days and nights taking care of the ill.

I do a lot of work for television, helping writers and directors to create medically plausible stories and scenes.  I used to get worried that I might get the dose of …

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Jimmy Kimmel recently delivered a 13-minute monologue that transfixed the nation.  He told the story of how his newborn son, Billy, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal cardiac anomaly, tetralogy of Fallot, and had undergone emergency surgery. He painted the picture of a sick child and a terrified family, who have the benefit of excellent care that ends well. He complimented the nurses and physicians who had …

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