My name is Arjun and I’m a physician completing my residency in diagnostic radiology at UC Davis. I’m interested ethics, fiction, and nonfiction writing. Below you can find some of my recent work.

Feel free to drop me a line; I’d love to hear from you.

arjunsbyju (at) gmail (dot) com

Essays:

Heaven’s Waiting Room — The Miami Native, Issue 2, June 2024

A Fruitful Life — Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 125, Nov 2023

How Declining Sperm Counts Have Seeded a Crisis of American Individualism — Current Affairs, Sep/Oct 2023

Lessons from the Bard — Physicians for Patient Protection, 1st Place, 2023 Resident Essay Contest

Analog Hobby for a Digital Age: Digging for Solace — Natural History, July/August 2022 [Print]

How ‘Active Shooter Trainings’ Normalize Mass Violence — Current Affairs, May/June 2022

A World of Pictures — Current Affairs, Nov/Dec 2021

Smooth Operator — Real Life, October 2021

Eating Endangered — Current Affairs, May/June 2021.

Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented a Disease — Current Affairs, April 2021.

Fiction:

The Medical Mystery of Ben Oco — The Pegasus Review, June 2022.

960 — Nanoism, July 2022

Bioethics:

Making up Monsters, Redirecting Blame: An Examination of Excited Delirium — Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2023

Excited Delirium: Falsifiability, Causality, and the Importance of Advocacy — Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2023

Physician unionisation in the USA: ethical and empirical considerations and the free-rider problem — Journal of Medical Ethics, October 2020

Medical error in the care of the unrepresented: disclosure and apology for a vulnerable patient population — Journal of Medical Ethics, August 2019