House Call

Physician Tobin Greensweig makes an unannounced visit to a patient’s house to check on him after he leaves the hospital.

Season 4The NocturnistsFebruary 15, 2022storytelling, performance, medical, hospital, physician, advance directive, healthcare, medicine, house call, family, hospice, mapping, community medicine, end of life decisions, autonomy

Bearing Witness

Psychiatrist Shaili Jain tells the story of a pivotal experience on a road trip with her father, and how it catalyzed her career as a PTSD specialist.

Season 4The NocturnistsFebruary 8, 2022storytelling, performance, medical, doctor, psychiatry, PTSD, psychiatrist, history, family, listening, trauma, generational trauma, mental health, connection

The Ride

Pediatrician Christina Lee recounts a memorable ambulance ride from residency, in which she helped transport a child from the hospital to hospice.

Season 4The NocturnistsFebruary 1, 2022storytelling, medical, pediatrics, transitioning, doctor, urgent care, ambulance, pediatrician, residency, parenting, hospice, cancer, children, dying, anxiety, COVID, Delta, testing, memory, patient, babies

Elective Procedure

Medical student Pablo Romano tells the story of losing his mother to complications of surgery, and how he continues her legacy as a medical student.

Season 4The NocturnistsJanuary 25, 2022storytelling, performance, medical, Doctor, medicine, surgery, mistakes, physician, hospital

Sharing the Air

Internal medicine physician Natasha Spottiswoode reflects on her flying days from Oxford while teaching a green intern how to recognize whether patients are "sick" or "not sick."

Season 4The NocturnistsDecember 7, 2021storytelling, performance, medical, Pilot, doctor, flying, healthcare, flow, climate, failure, mountaineering, infectiousdisease, teaching, airmanship, diagnosticerror, ER, instinct, intern, medicine, pandemic, patient, residency

Authentically Me

Internist Ashley McMullen decides to let her hair go natural for the first time in over a decade -- a process which serves as a metaphor for self-acceptance in the rigid world of medicine.

Season 4The NocturnistsNovember 30, 2021storytelling, performance, medical, medicine, doctor, healthcare, podcast, patient, black, hair, residency, transitioning, LGBTQ

See One, Do One, Teach One

Interventional Radiologist Bobby Chiong's reflects on the high-stakes nature of his job and the intimidating responsibility of being entrusted with patients' care.

Season 4The NocturnistsNovember 23, 2021storytelling, performance, medical, InterventionalRadiology, Patient, Doctor, ImposterSyndrome, medical training, trust, pandemic, ICU, MedicalStorytelling, mistake, learning

Burn the Map

Psychiatrist David Elkin tells a story of how an improv workshop transformed his interaction with a patient on the psych consult service.

Season 4The NocturnistsNovember 16, 2021Improvisation, spontaneity, openness, burnout, storytelling, checklists, agendabuilding, performance, therapeuticalliance, psychiatry, suicideevaluation

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