Emily Silverman, MD

"I was placed for adoption by my teenage birth parents during a time when closed adoptions were still commonplace. Each year on my adoption day, my adoptive mother would tell me the story of how I came into their lives. The story grew in detail as I aged and was interrupted by more questions. I learned that I was briefly in foster care during a sta

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This amazing paper, about the history of time organization for doctors, reminds me of the scene in Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep explains to Anne Hathaway where her ugly blue sweater came from. "This way of practicing medicine was selected FOR you..." 🤯🤯🤯

COVID dreams from healthcare workers, which speak to the terror/uncertainty of 2020-2201.

An adoptee cuddles a baby on her pediatrics rotation, and reimagines how clinicians might use the electronic medical record to communicate love to/for/about their patients.