About Dr. Profeta
Dr. Louis M. Profeta is an Emergency Physician at St. Vincent Hospital of Indianapolis. He is clinical instructor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University and Marian University Schools of Medicine. He is a graduate of Indiana University and its school of Medicine and completed his post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a dynamic and sought after public speaker and writer, frequent guest on TV and radio who has gained critical acclaim for his essays on topics such as his eye-opening look at our national preparedness for influenza pandemics in What Scares me More than Ebola. In 2015 and again in 2016 he was named LinkedIn Top Voice for readership in health care. The Society of Professional Journalism honored his scathingly sarcastic but passionate essay, Your Kid and My Kid Aren’t Playing in the Pros, as one of best articles on sports in 2014. His best selling book, The Patient in Room Nine Says He’s God, continues to earn critical acclaim as a poignant and passionate look at society, god and life through the eyes of an ER doctor. His essay, I Know You Love Me Now Let Me Die has been read more than five million times on LinkedIn, the Huffington Post and NPR and has sparked a whole new debate on end of life care. His 2017 essays When the Lion Kills Your Child and A Sunday Talk on Sex, Drugs, Drinking and Dying With the Frat Boys, are two of the most read and shared articles ever on LinkedIn, exposing the disastrous consequences of the opiate epidemic, drug and alcohol abuse and sexual assaults on college campuses. He is quickly becoming one of the most widely read opinion essayists in America.
Links to Other Articles, Interviews and Talks
I Don't Know Another Living Person on This Earth
These Four Words That May Offend You May Also Just Save You
The Fading Light of A Time Of Heroes
If I Would Have Known He Was Going to Walk on the Moon I Would Have Talked to Him More
No Offense But Merry Christmas
God May Make You Explain Why You Skipped Your High School Reunion
Dear Principal Lawrence...Get My Kid a Toilet Brush
From The Factory Floor Someone Saved Your Life
We're Living in an Age of Cell Phone Cowards
Soon We Will Transplant Organs From Different Species
Grilled Cheese, Tomato Soup and the Great Coach Chuck Pagano
There's No Good Way to Kosher an Alaskan King Crab
I Don't Care if My Doctor Plays Piano
The Pothole Politicians of Indianapolis
I Cut My Lawn and Sipped My Soda, Then Realized He Killed Her
Future Events and Reviews
Upcoming Events
January 28th Miami of Ohio University
February 17, Lambda Chi Convention Indianapolis
March 8th, Randolph Macon College
March 11, Rose-Hulman
March 22, IUPUI Heins Hall 4:30pm
April 25th Indiana ACEP Podcast
April 26, New Washington High School
May 15, Hewitt Chabbad Long Island, NY
May 29, North Central High School
July 29 Theta Chi National Convention
August 11 Sigma Alpha Mu National Convention
August 23, Hamilton County Division MIBOR
September 25th University of Missouri
January 11, Lambda Chi Convention Indianapolis
Testimonials
Dr. Profeta,
My name is S... and I attended your talk with the WVU women's swim team this past Monday. I just wanted to reach out to you and thank you once again for your willingness to come speak with us. I, alongside many of my teammates, found your words to be incredibly powerful.
....As soon as I left the football stadium Monday night, I got in my car and called my dad. I tried explaining what I just sat and listened to but I could barely even understand myself, as I was quickly overwhelmed with tears. I apologized for every stupid thing I have done thus far in my life, (and that took a while) and told him I never wanted to put him through the pain of losing me so I would finally "make good decisions" like he has been telling me my whole life, or at least since the day he knew I was going to be a hellion.
I have a very close and special bond with my parents so I am able to share many of my experiences with them, sometimes leaving them a bit concerned. But after sharing a special phone conversation about your speech with my dad and later with my mom on Monday night, I believe we have reached a new level of respect, trust and understanding. And although they could not be there to hear your words for themselves, I know they have appreciation and give you great thanks for your time and message.
Again, thank you very much. We as individuals and a team needed this very much.
Sincerely,
S
From Miami of Ohio
- "Extremely shocking and eye opening"
- "More effective than multiple alcohol courses we are forced to take."
- "Amazing to see the dangerous truth behind what's going on across colleges."
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