Writing

Peer-reviewed and reference

• PubMed More than thirty 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

• Substack Nobody Counted

  Thiamine deficiency was declared solved in the 1940s. Nobody ever measured how common it still is. August 2026

• Substack Terra Incognita

  The blank spaces on the drug interaction map are not empty. Nobody went. July 2026

• Substack The Sentence Nobody Owns

  On medical silos and cross-reactivity. July 2026

• BellyMD Journal What an ER doctor learned about chronic gut symptoms

  July 2026

• BellyMD Journal What the gut-brain axis actually is

  July 2026

• BellyMD Journal Thiamine and the gut-brain connection: what vitamin B1 actually does

  July 2026

• BellyMD Journal The full journal

  Ongoing essays on the gut-brain axis, thiamine, and disorders of gut-brain interaction

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

Dr. Rick’s Picks

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