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.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsFebruary 16, 2023neurology, storytelling, playwriting, acting, art, medicine, music, unexpected diagnoses, mental decline, brain, pandemic play, frontotemporal disorders, dementia, changing identity, relationships, degenerative disease, frontotemporal degeneration disease

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.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsDecember 8, 2022Trauma, abnormal, chronic disease, healing, development, stress, addiction, immune system, pathology, illness, Holocaust, ADHD, palliative, autoimmune, medications, biopsychosocial, inflammation, normal, diagnosis, medicine, breastcancer, ALS, authenticity, anger, acceptance, agency

Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD

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

ConversationsThe NocturnistsDecember 1, 2022Doctor, medicaltrainee, Chicago, cardiology, writing, stories, love, Ghanaian, Black, medicine, fiction, medicalstudent, hospital, physician, relationships, medicalracism, healthcare

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: 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: 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: 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

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