Maimonides Health is proud to announce that Airway has been accepted for the program at Brooklyn Public Library’s annual Night at the Library.
Upcoming Event:
Join us at the ‘Night at the Library’ On Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 7 pm, Night in the Library returns with The Sky Above Brooklyn – The Philosophy of the Sublime. This event is free to attend but registration is required, click here to register.
- Airway: Stories From Doctors Across a Brooklyn Hospital
Sun, Mar 9, 2025 - 1:00 am – 1:30 am
- Central Library: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Schedule:
Library schedule
Maimo Airway schedule
Airway of past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH8RTCHiDNM
Presenters:
Dr. Joshua Schiller
Dr. Mert Erogul
Dr. Jessica Poster
For more information, contact meroguol@maimo.org or jschiller@maimo.org.
About Airway
Airway is a storytelling forum for emergency doctors to share their experiences of being a physician. We started as a local event among residency programs in New York City. On a stage surrounded by fellow doctors, speakers armed with only a microphone would tell honest stories about their work to an understanding audience. Since then, we found that these events help physicians reflect on their practice, cultivate a sense of empathy, and develop a support network of trusted colleagues. Over time, Airway expanded to other cities across the U.S. and has become a fixture at national emergency medicine conferences.
ER doctors have urgent stories. Some of them are poignant, often they are funny, above all they are deeply human. We have learned a few important lessons which make the events compelling to attend but none more important than “keeping it real,” so the stories are very different from a rehearsed speech or lecture. Other than maintaining respectful confidentiality and HIPAA, there are no parameters on what is said. While our events have been primarily targeted at doctors, lay-people in attendance almost always find the stories and the performances compelling.
Holistically, Airway supports and encourages a humanity-based perspective of medical practice, encompassing the practitioner, patient, and society at large. In this regard, several components of clinical practice are strengthened, including empathy, reflection, and development of a greater sense of community. Ironically, many of these components get lost during the long, arduous path of medical education and practice.
The world of medicine is inherently a dramatic place. Airway gives participants unique insight into that world, such that one can truly appreciate the powerful experience of being human.
Maimonides Health is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 320,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1,800+ physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center.
Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. For additional information, please visit www.maimo.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.