In November 2016, AIRWAY launched its virtual storytelling platform. The remarkable success of the live events spurred the development of an online forum to reach a broader community of emergency physicians and providers across the country. If you are interested in submitting your story to our virtual stage, please click here for further instructions.
Interview with dr. maung, physician in hiding somewhere near mandalay, myanmar
Dr. Maung is an infectious disease specialist in Myanmar where, in February of this year, a military coup ended democracy and established authoritarian rule. In response the country has risen up in protest. Doctors have played a major role in the...
Interview with Kafeel Khan, MD
Dr. Khan has become a public figure after being scapegoated by the local government for the deaths of 60 children when his hospital ran out of oxygen. He has been imprisoned twice and spent 500 days in jail in the last two years...
An experience of patient suicide
Jennifer Mitzman, MD is an attending with dual training in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She is passionate about graduate medical education serving as the lead pediatric educator at The Ohio State University’s Dept of Emergency Medicine and the...
An emotional story of a patient experience
Will Smith is a medical student currently completing his rotations in New York. When Will isn’t studying, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters and he is also the host of “The Lost in PreMed Podcast” (@LostInPreMed), a podcast geared towards premed...
A heart-rending story of a broken child
Alexandra Heloise Godfrey, M.S., P.A.-C, works as a Physician Assistant in a busy emergency department in rural North Carolina. Her deep love for language along with a passion for medicine have found their expression in the medical humanities: “through storytelling...
A humble look at self-worth
Ross Fisher, MBChB MSc MPhil FRCS RCPS is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield England. He trained in Medicine at Sheffield University graduating in 1988. After general surgical training he undertook 7 years of specialist...
A massive, traumatic head bleed
Dorian Alexander, MD is a critical care intensivist and emergency medicine attending at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Alexander never gets scared, even when the notification phone rings and EMS brings in an obtunded woman...
A patient Communication encounter
Mert Erogul, MD is one of the founders of AIRWAY and an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In his story, Dr. Erogul recounts a patient communication encounter. (5:58 minutes)
A deeply personal and life-threatening experience
Grace Glassman, MD is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In her story, Dr. Glassman shares a deeply personal and life-threatening experience in which the patient-physician script has been...
A little story about a story
Mert Erogul, MD is one of the founders of AIRWAY and an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Here, Dr. Erogul tells us a little story about a story. (5:07 minutes)
Do VIP patients receive special care?
Tyler Beals, MD, is a senior resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY and one of the founders of Airway. Have you ever suspected that the “special care” that “VIP patients” receive isn’t as great as they would like to think? Tyler confirms that suspicion...
