The Nocturnists Podcast
The Nocturnists is an award-winning medical storytelling podcast, hosted by physician Emily Silverman. We feature personal stories from frontline clinicians, conversations with healthcare-related authors and art-makers, and special podcast documentary series such as Post-Roe America, Shame in Medicine, Black Voices in Healthcare, and Stories from a Pandemic. In 2024, we’ll be bringing you Season 6 of our Stories from the World of Medicine and more Conversations, as well as commencing production on a new series, Uncertainty in Medicine.
Our mission is to humanize healthcare and foster joy, wonder, and curiosity among clinicians and patients alike.
**Anthem Award winner, two-time Webby Award nominee, and Ambie Award finalist for Best Indie Podcast in 2023.**
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Conversations
Emily in conversation with artist and thinkers whose work examines the moral and cultural issues besetting healthcare today. Guests include Pulitzer Prize nominee Louise Aronson, MD, New York Times bestselling authors Janice Nimura and Michele Harper, MD, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France.
WINNER - Quill Podcast Award 2022 - Best Health Podcast
Special Series
Post-Roe America (2023)
An audio documentary series exploring the impact of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on the lives and practices of healthcare workers.
Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest (2022)
An award-winning documentary podcast series created in partnership with the Shame and Medicine project at the University of Exeter.
Black Voices in Healthcare (2020)
A documentary podcast series from the summer of 2020, featuring the voices of Black people in healthcare, hosted by Ashley McMullen, MD and executive produced by Kimberly Manning, MD.
Stories from a Pandemic (2020-2021)
A documentary podcast series featuring the voices of healthcare workers confronting the pandemic in the spring of 2020 (Part I) and 2021 (Part II). No Words is a short animated video memorializing those we’ve lost. The complete audio diary archive has been acquired for historic preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress.