His essays have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine. Ricardo is also a fiction writer. His stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Ninth Letter, and The Indiana Review, among other places, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2011. He is currently working on a collection of these stories. He teaches the Literature and Medicine course in the Medicine and Society program, and collaborates with other faculty within the Honors Program in Health Professions.