Rosalind Kaplan

Aug 9, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Shuchita Gupta |Peter Ubel |Rosalind Kaplan |Joshua W. Elder

As I drive to work and back, my eyes are on the ambient temperature reading in my car—it has been creeping up every day. I routinely listen to NPR, and extreme heat in various parts of the world comes up in daily discussions. As a heart failure cardiologist in the clinic, I routinely ask my patients about their activity levels. Most of them complain about the heat and how it impacts their activity, making them feel short of breath.

Jul 1, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Rosalind Kaplan |Sara Pastoor |Christopher Habig |Dorinda White

In 2017, amidst the routine of caregiving for my elderly father, I experienced a sudden and unexpected turn of events that brought me face to face with an undeniable truth: the importance of knowing and listening to our bodies. I slipped on a carpet and broke my ankle while pushing my father forward in his wheelchair.

Jan 10, 2024 | thegalwayreview.com | Rosalind Kaplan

Rosalind Kaplan has been published in several literary and medical journals, including Across the Margin, El Portal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Signal Mountain Review, The Smart Set, Stonecoast Review, Sweet Tree, and Vagabond City.

Sep 27, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Rachel Basham |Richard Young |Stephen Parodi |Rosalind Kaplan

Imagine you are in a bad car accident. You are in and out of consciousness. There are lights and sirens and the smell of gasoline. Everything hurts more than you can bear. Hands pull you from the car and place you on a hard backboard with a rigid cervical collar around your neck. You bump down the road in the back of an ambulance as you start feeling like you can’t breathe. You arrive at a local trauma center where they are short 50 percent of their ED nurses.