Justin Fiala, MD

Thank you so much to @medpagetoday.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute this piece about the grief, the pandemic, and the healing power of art.

#medicine
#art
#pandemic
#pccm

31.01.2025 21:35 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to be giving Yale's Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds today!

Poor sleep health disproportionately affects minority and low-resource people, but the free sleep clinic CHI-PAP (Community Health Initiative for Patient-centered Apnea Protocol) tackles these disparities. Tune in to learn how.

#sleep

29.01.2025 15:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

A very MICU Christmas! 🎄🩺

#micu
#pccm
#holidayhospital

25.12.2024 17:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My latest 3D modeling/printing project, born out of a desire to salvage a bunch of under-loved (found in a common space of my building) succulents:

S-bend Planter
3D printed in PLA
2024

#3dprinting
#succulents
#art

09.12.2024 12:09 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like the CTA Holiday Train's less-impressive cousin. Not perfect, but A+ for effort.

#chicago
#holidaylights

08.12.2024 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hosted some of our pulm/crit fellows for dinner and painting (they didn't know they'd be forced to contribute to a communal canvas until they arrived), and the result was dark, chaotic, and cathartic. In my eyes, a perfect representation of the underlying unease as we move into 2025.

#art
#pccm

24.11.2024 02:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Self Portrait: Intubated & Cannulated
36" x 48"
Oil on Canvas

Painted during the early days of the pandemic this piece explores the loss of autonomy in the face of critical illness.

04.12.2023 21:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Morning Commute, Peak Pandemic: Stop Requested
48"x60"
Oil on Canvas

I started this piece during the height of the pandemic thinking on essential work. I'd start my commute into the MICU on an eerily empty CTA bus where I'd take my seat among the other HCWs and sit in socially-distanced silence.

03.12.2023 17:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0