Daniela Lamas, New Arizona Fellow, is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Following graduation from Harvard College, she went on to earn her M.D. at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where she also completed an internship and residency. She then returned to Boston for her subspecialty fellowship. Her first book, You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between, was published by Little, Brown in 2018. She is also a staff writer for the Twentieth Century Fox medical TV drama The Resident. She is interested in writing about loneliness, caregiving, and the unseen stories of critical care.
Select Work:
- I’m on the Front Lines. I Have No Plan for This.: An op-ed about the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic and Dr. Lamas's patients who will die alone due to quarantine measures. (New York Times, 2020)
- The Difficult Burden of Family Caregivers: A piece about the increasing burdens that we place on caregivers. (STAT, 2018)
- When the Hospice Care System Fails: A reevaluation of hospice as a good death. For the family member at the bedside, it's not that simple. (New York Times, 2018)