Taylor Purvis, M.D., is a resident anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Political Science and earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. She has published more than 40 manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical journals. She lives near Boston with her husband, Chris, and Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Geraint.