Posts tagged hospital
Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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. 

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsBirth, hospital, Social worker, Nurses, Montgomery, Alabama, Depo-provera, Tubal ligation, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Informed consent, Fiction, Clinic, Lawyers, Federal Courts, HEW, Forced Sterilization, Coercion, Civil rights, Medical racism, Patients, Montgomery advertiser, Reproductive rights, Priggish, Ambivalence, Motherhood, Relf sisters, Healthcare workers, Black women, Maternal mortality
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD

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

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsDoctor, medicaltrainee, Chicago, cardiology, writing, stories, love, Ghanaian, Black, medicine, fiction, medicalstudent, hospital, physician, relationships, medicalracism, healthcare
Conversations: Wesley Ely, MD
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.

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Conversations: Emily Maloney
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.

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Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD
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.

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Conversations: Michele Harper, MD
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.

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