The Publication
Art of Anesthesia
Art of Anesthesia explains how anesthesia actually works — the drugs, the monitoring, and the people in the room. More than a thousand subscribers, built from scratch in the publication's first six months. Free posts weekly.
What I Write About
Explainers, commentary, and scenes from the OR
Plain-language explainers on how anesthesia actually works. Honest commentary on how the media portrays nurses (and what it gets wrong). And quiet stories from the head of the bed, where I spend my working life.
Featured Essays
Most-read explainers
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Art of AnesthesiaWhat a CRNA actually is — and why we never leave your side during surgery.
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Art of AnesthesiaThe question every surgical patient wonders, answered from the head of the bed — the publication's top-converting explainer.
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Art of AnesthesiaPostoperative nausea, explained by a clinician who has also published peer-reviewed research on preventing it.
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Art of AnesthesiaThe most famous anesthetic drug in the world, demystified.
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Art of AnesthesiaAirway management — the skill that defines the specialty — for people who'll (thankfully) never see it.
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Art of AnesthesiaThe strange intimacy of being the person you'll never remember.
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Art of AnesthesiaCultural commentary on medical television, and what it gets right and wrong about nurses.
Anesthesia explainersPatient safetyNursing visibilityNarrative medicine
Professional & Academic Commentary
Beyond the newsletter
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ONS Voice · 2024On the path from the bedside to a research career.
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ONS Voice · 2024Reporting from the front lines of oncology nursing research training.
For peer-reviewed publications, see the Scholarship page.