Colleen M Farrell MD
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Physician
& Writer

 
 
 
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Colleen M. Farrell, MD is a pulmonary and critical care physician in Boston, MA. Her candid writings about her experiences in medical training and on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and JAMA, among other publications.

 

 Notes from a COVID epicenter

Learning to Heal, Learning to Mourn in The Nation
My Covid ICU experience in The Washington Post
How to support frontline workers in The New York Times

 

Mental Health in Medical Training

Facing depression in JAMA Internal Medicine
Vulnerability as strength—Harvard Medical School Graduation
Poetry in the ICU in STAT
The problem of 24-hour resident shifts in Op-Med

 
 

Systole and Diastole:
Strength and Openness

Colleen’s JAMA essay exploring the heart as metaphor was selected for a
commemorative issue marking 40 years of the journal’s A Piece of My Mind column.