Oncologist Stuart Bloom speaks about his staged musical, How to Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes, which tracks his journey from songwriter to oncologist, and the way he copes with burnout and finds meaning in his work.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsDecember 14, 2023

Conversations: Laurel Braitman

Author Laurel Braitman speaks about her memoir, What Looks Like Bravery, which explores her relationship to her physician-father, and her professional journey toward a career teaching writing to clinicians.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsDecember 7, 2023

Conversations: Jay Baruch, MD

Emergency medicine physician and author Jay Baruch speaks about his memoir, Tornado of Life, which explores ethics, stories, and uncertainty in the ER.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsNovember 30, 2023

Conversations: Anthony Chin-Quee, MD

Television writer and former ENT surgeon Anthony Chin-Quee speaks about his memoir, “I Can't Save You,” and his burgeoning career in storytelling for the screen.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsNovember 16, 2023

Conversations: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin speaks about her book Real Self-Care, which challenges mainstream notions of "self care" and offers a new framework for cultivating wellbeing.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 24, 2023

Conversations: Hannah Wunsch, MD

Critical care physician Hannah Wunsch speaks about her book The Autumn Ghost, which tells the story of a polio epidemic in Copenhagen in the 1950s, and how it gave birth to the invention of the modern ventilator and the field of ICU medicine.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 17, 2023

Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)

Ophthalmologist-comedian Will Flanary and educator Kristin Flanary (aka Dr. Glaucomflecken and Lady Glaucomflecken) discuss their medical comedy platform, and how Will's personal experience with cardiac arrest impacted the way they view their work as healthcare satirists and content creators.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 10, 2023

Conversations: Eric Topol, MD

Cardiologist Eric Topol speaks about his book Deep Medicine, which explores the potential for AI to enhance medical decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and restore the doctor-patient relationship.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 3, 2023

Conversations: Michael Stein, MD

Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the difference between "healthcare" and "public health" and makes the case for shifting more attention toward the latter.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsJune 1, 2023

Conversations: Ricardo Nuila, MD

Writer and physician Ricardo Nuila speaks about his debut book The People's Hospital, a love letter to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas, and exploration of how its unique business model may help solve our broken healthcare system.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMay 25, 2023

Conversations: Chloé Cooper Jones

Writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones speaks about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to widen perceptions of beauty, motherhood, and disability.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMay 18, 2023

Conversations: Philip Zelikow

Historian, attorney, and diplomat Philip Zelikow speaks about the investigative report Lessons from the Covid War, which examines the U.S. response to COVID and provides valuable insights for how we can do better in the future.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMay 11, 2023

Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez speaks about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who were forcibly sterilized at a federally-funded health clinic in Montgomery, Alabama.

Conversations: Jake Broder, Lucy Davenport & Bruce Miller, MD

Playwright Jake Broder, actor Lucy Davenport, and neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller discuss Broder’s play UnRavelled, which explores the fascinating relationship between dementia, art, and music.

Conversations: Iain McGilchrist, MD

Psychiatrist-philosopher Iain McGilchrist speaks about his seminal book The Master and His Emissary, which explores the relationship between our brain’s right and left hemispheres and how they structure our understanding of the world.

Conversations: Matthew Wetschler, MD

Physician-painter Matthew Wetschler speaks about pushing limits, the tension between presence and absence, and how he’s remained curious in the aftermath of crisis.

Conversations: Gabor Maté, MD

Physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté speaks about his latest book The Myth of Normal, which explores the connections between our environment, psychological wounds, and medical disease.

Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD

Physician, artist, and author Shirlene Obuobi speaks about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel, On Rotation.

Conversations: Nina Shevzov-Zebrun, MD

Pediatrics resident Nina Shevzov-Zebrun speaks about movement, medicine, and the creation of The Ten Tensions Project, which explores core dilemmas of the physician experience through photography and dance.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 30, 2022

Conversations: Danielle Ofri, MD

Physician-author Danielle Ofri speaks about the science of writing, the art of medicine, and the imperative of recognizing stories as a tool for healing.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 23, 2022

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