She has published extensively in professional and lay media. Between 2000 and 2014, she also wrote a medical-opinion column for several Bay Area newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The Contra Costa Times. Her columns explored the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of American health care. Informed by her tenure as the medical director for one of the country's first hospital AIDS wards, she wrote Death of the Good Doctor -- Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Cleis, 1999). Her memoir recounts her coming-of-age as a physician while caring for people with AIDS during the early epidemic years (1985-1990). It was re-issued in electronic format in 2010 (Amazon Kindle) and reprinted in paperback in 2012.