Conversations: Cathy O'Neil

Data scientist and author Cathy O’Neil speaks about her book The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, which investigates how society exploits the powerful emotion of shame.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 16, 2022

Conversations: David France

Documentary filmmaker and journalist David France speaks about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Survive a Plague (2012), and the role of storytelling in documenting public health crises and holding institutions accountable.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsAugust 9, 2022COVID, AIDS, disease, doctors, pandemic, film, vaccines, HBO, science, public health, politics, pharmaceutical, PPE, frontline, healthcare, solution, documentary, reporter, health, development, production, distribution, access, stakeholders, WHO, Fauci, community, academic, research, labs, footage, recording, institution, retrospective, prospective, archival, embargo, epidemic, ACTUP, activism, HIV, journalism, impact, survive, plague, testing, trials, vaccination, measure, success, rollout, history, genetic sequence, invention, China, measurement, bookstores, organizing, solidarity, global, clinical, protesting, IP, orthodox, christian, priest, mentalhealth, hesitancy, misinformation, network, robotic, cameras, meta narrative, heroes, military, metaphors, artists, podcast, historians, journalists, anthropologists, witness, philosophical, prism, science journalism, discovery, moral failure, Tedros, CDC, nationalism

Conversations: Rupa Marya, MD & Raj Patel

Physician Rupa Marya and political economist Raj Patel discuss their book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, which explores the impact of oppressive systems on our health and how deep medicine can facilitate collective healing.

Conversations: Sidarta Ribeiro

Neuroscientist and author Sidarta Ribeiro speaks about his book The Oracle of Night, which investigates the art and science of dreams and the extraordinary power dreams have in shaping our world.

Conversations: Laura Kolbe, MD

Poet, physician, and medical ethicist Dr. Laura Kolbe speaks about her poetry collection Little Pharma, which explores the languages of poetry and medicine, and how poetry can capture the spirit of what it means to be human.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMay 3, 2022doctor, podcast, storytelling, medical ethics, poetry, narrative, language, patient, pharma, physician, medical error, training, National Poetry Month

Conversations: Wesley Ely, MD

Dr. Wesley Ely speaks about his book Every Deep Drawn Breath, which explores deep sedation and immobilization in the ICU, and how he's transforming critical care, one patient at a time.

Conversations: Jenny Qi

Cancer biologist and poet Jenny Qi speaks about her poetry collection Focal Point, which examines science, disease, love, and family.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMarch 29, 2022cancer, competitive intelligence, Chinese, immigrant, cultural revolution, lab, memoirs, mother, death, mourning, oncology, pnets, poem, poetry, suppression, translating, writing, medicine, student, podcast

Conversations: Ross Douthat

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat speaks about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme disease.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMarch 15, 2022Alzheimer’s, disease, dementia, book, longtermcare, caregiver, caregiving, brain, aging, memory, history, science, socialconstruction, geriatrics, cognitiveimpairment, disability, nursinghome, autonomy, selfdetermination, narrativemedicine, morality, forgetting, creativity, creativecare, delirium, pharmacology, supplements, FDA, policy, technology, homelessness, deception, home, extendedmind, neurodegeneration, architecture, healthcare, medications, therapeutics, treatment, moralchoice, medicalethics, cme, doctors, patients, storytelling, lyme disease, antibiotics, bacteria, chronic illness, CDC, medical controversy, evidence, Connecticut, medical consensus, establishment, climate change, Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, Rife machine, anecdata, medical research, experimental treatment, skepticism

Conversations: Emily Maloney

Author Emily Maloney speaks about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s like to be on both sides of the healthcare cost equation.

Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD

Dr. Jason Karlawish speaks about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s, and the mounting practical, moral, and ethical quandaries of caring for patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-causing diseases.

Conversations: Michele Harper, MD

Emergency room physician Dr. Michele Harper speaks about her memoir The Beauty in Breaking, which explores how the healing journeys of her patients intersect with her own.

Conversations: Katie Engelhart

Journalist Katie Englehart speaks about her book The Inevitable: Dispatches On The Right to Die, and the murky ethical dilemmas of medical aid in dying.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsOctober 19, 2021Autonomy, Medicine, ageism, death, dignity, euthanasia, medicalaidindying, mentalcapacity, mentalillness, pain, palliativecare, physicianassisteddeath, rationalsuicide, righttodie, journalism

Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn

Author Dr. Elinor Cleghorn speaks about Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, exploring how the medical profession has been grappling with the problem of gender bias and how the symptoms of women are seen as atypical, or worse, are minimized, dismissed or ignored.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsOctober 12, 2021Medicine, autoimmune_disorder, women, female, gender_bias, healthcare, lupus, misogyny, physician, sexism, uterus, hysteria, illness, disease, symptoms, pain, anatomy, misdiagnosis, myth, medical_history

Conversations: Suzanne Koven, MD

Dr. Suzanne Koven speaks about Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life, which is a testament to how, while some things have changed for the better for women in medical education, much of the culture remains the same.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMay 4, 2021

Conversations: Ina Park, MD

Family medicine doctor and author Dr. Ina Park speaks about her book Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsApril 27, 2021

Conversations: Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalken, MD

Anesthesiologist and author Dr. Abdul Ghaaliq-Lalkhen speaks about his book An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering, which helps unravel some of the mysteries of the sensation of pain.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsApril 20, 2021

Conversations: Kirsten Johnson

Documentary filmmaker speaks about her film Dick Johnson Is Dead, which explores her experience caring for her father, a psychiatrist who has dementia.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsApril 13, 2021film, humor, dementia, Alzheimer’s

Conversations: Jessica Zitter, MD

Critical care and palliative care medicine doctor Jessica Zitter speaks about her directorial debut Caregiver: a love story.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsFebruary 9, 2021film, caregiving, caregiver, documentary, medicine, storytelling

Conversations: Danielle Spencer

Professor and author Danielle Spencer speaks about her book Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity which, in identifying and naming the concept of metagnosis, brings the study of healthcare into conversation with the discourse on identity.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsFebruary 2, 2021medicine, storytelling, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, misogyny

Conversations: Michael Stephen, MD

Pulmonologist Dr. Michael Stephen speaks about Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsJanuary 26, 2021

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