What was your first job as a journalist?
I publish on KevinMD, but my first job was heading a newsletter for community college in San Francisco.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, in high school. I think by college we were using a word processor
How is social media changing news?
Misinformation
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Old weekend updates snl jane curtin bill murray chevy chase dan ackroyd. Or kermit the frog.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Sharing truth, history, upholding freedom, shining a light on corruption and cruelty.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Nothing funny these days.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Physician well familiar with work environments, anesthesiologist for over 20 years, now psychotherapist with focus on agency and choice.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Word
What's your favorite social network?
Bluesky, substack.
Who do you wish followed you?
Stakeholders in medical care.
Why did you become a journalist?
I am not a journalist, just a recorder of our American medical system crushing its clinicians.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
I am most proud of my work focusing on the intersection between our upbringing and our tolerance for our education and training environments
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Be truthful
When's the best time to pitch you?
NA
What's the best pitch you ever got?
NA
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
NA
What's your favorite drink?
Tea
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Garden, building soil.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Heather Cox Richardson, Timothy Snyder
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Doctors are wealthy and have no insecurities
