Posts tagged physician
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.

Read More
ConversationsThe NocturnistsDoctor, medicaltrainee, Chicago, cardiology, writing, stories, love, Ghanaian, Black, medicine, fiction, medicalstudent, hospital, physician, relationships, medicalracism, healthcare
Conversations: Laura Kolbe, MD
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.

Read More
ConversationsThe Nocturnistsdoctor, podcast, storytelling, medical ethics, poetry, narrative, language, patient, pharma, physician, medical error, training, National Poetry Month
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn
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.

Read More
ConversationsThe NocturnistsMedicine, autoimmune_disorder, women, female, gender_bias, healthcare, lupus, misogyny, physician, sexism, uterus, hysteria, illness, disease, symptoms, pain, anatomy, misdiagnosis, myth, medical_history