At the time, the leading pediatric intensive care units in the country were staffed by anesthesiologists, so Truog did a second residency in anesthesiology at UCLA before moving to New England to pursue advanced education in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

[5] Truog has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers in bioethics and related fields, and co-authored two books.

Another area of focus for Truog has been ethical aspects of disclosure of medical errors to patients and their families.

Much of this work has involved conducting dozens of live workshops where clinicians are given the opportunity to practice disclosure of errors with trained actors, exploring the ethical complexity of these conversations while receiving feedback to improve their performance.

Truog wrote about this work with his colleagues in a second book, Talking with Patients and Families about Medical Error: A Guide for Education and Practice,”[8] published in 2010, translated into Italian and Japanese, and launched electronically on JHU MUSE January 1, 2012.