Dr. Edwin Leap is an emergency physician with 24 years of experience. He is a well known communicator and a successful columnist, writing about everything from medicine to family, faith to culture and everything in between.
Life in Emergistan: Sometimes EDs are the Only Solution (but Rarely the Best One)
KevinMD: Vaccine hesitancy is complex
Select writings from Dr. Leap, in his own words:
This is a piece I wrote originally for EM News, back before they had anything in archives online. It was picked up by many sources over the years and in a couple of places is required reading for medical students. Things like this take on rather a life of their own. I’m OK with that. Although older, it may be one of my most important bits of writing ever.
https://edwinleap.com/the-golden-rule-revisited/
This was a piece I wrote that the Huffington Post solicited and led to me blogging there for a season.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-could-an-er-miss-ebol_b_5994056
I wrote a lot of pieces either at KevinMD or which were used by him. He still sometimes picks up my work from MedPage Today.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2014/08/consider-messages-tattoos-sending.html
I have written for probably 15 years for the SC Baptist Courier. These days it’s mostly a monthly health tip in 500 words. This is from that magazine when it was more of a ‘theology meets medicine’ column for me.
https://baptistcourier.com/2009/11/sharing-blood-and-breath/
My first real writing gig was with the Greenville News, and it was very formative because it was sometimes medical, sometimes family, sometimes humor or faith. It was wide open!
https://edwinleap.com/beach-vacation-this-weeks-greenville-news-column/
Finally, I rarely publish fiction, but it is among my goals. This was on Substack. People seemed to like it, but I have a long way to go.
https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/the-trash-man
