Editor's Note: Every year, Rhode Island Monthly releases its Top Docs issue. These are doctors in a variety of specialties who are named tops in their field by their peers.
Dr. Jody Meharg feels most comfortable educating medical students in the critical care unit at Roger Williams Medical Center.
He's trying to make the sickest patients in the hospital better.
"You have your best idea of what is going wrong with the patient and you have these other six ideas that could be going wrong with the patient. So you're constantly challenging your own ideas," Meharg said.
There's nothing cookie cutter about medicine as far as Meharg is concerned. He admits many times there are more unknowns than knowns.
"Certainly there's a lot of detective work and when you have to do detective work, there's probably only a 50-50 chance you'll ever figure out the answer, and yet many of those people still get better," he said.
Meharg is not originally from Rhode Island. He's from the New York area but he's planting roots in the Ocean State. Meharg, his wife, a pediatrician, and two daughters have been in Rhode Island for more than 20 years.
The top critical care doctor has been called both brilliant and unorthodox.
"I like unorthodox brilliant. I'm very uncomfortable with that," Meharg said.
"I think why I do a good job is because I'm questioning everything. And because I'm applying common sense. Common sense is vitally important to being good doctor. It's much more than memorizing the textbooks," he said.
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