Colleen M Farrell MD
 



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

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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

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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.

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