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: Matthew Wetschler, MD

Physician-painter Matthew Wetschler speaks about pushing limits, the tension between presence and absence, and how he’s remained curious in the aftermath of crisis.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsDecember 15, 2022Surfing, painting, accident, spinalcord, doctor, limits, failure, emergencymedicine, injury, artist, philosophy, absence, presence, storytelling, creating, success, performance, capacity, artwork, healthcare

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: 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: 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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