Edwin Leap, MD, is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for 30 years since finishing residency. He currently works as an emergency physician for WVU Hospitals in Princeton, West Virginia. He has previously worked in both large and small hospitals, with a particular interest in critical access facilities.
Leap began writing op-eds for the Greenville News in South Carolina in 1995. Since then, he has written op-eds and columns for the SC Baptist Courier, Emergency Medicine News, the Atlantic Monthly, Focus on the Family magazine, KevinMD, and others. He also writes a weekly Substack newsletter called “Life and Limb,” and serves as editor of Common Sense, the magazine of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. His MedPage Today column, “Rural Rx” focuses on medicine outside the cities and suburbs. Leap and his wife have four adult children.
