Trailer: Season 6 -Stories from the World of Medicine
SYNOPSIS
This season, the award-winning podcast The Nocturnists takes listeners on a captivating journey through seven episodes that delve into the personal and professional rebirths of those deeply embedded in healthcare. Recorded live in Minneapolis at the Parkway Theatre in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (CFAM), these narratives explore themes of discovery, loss, love, and the serendipitous paths to healing.
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Season 6 features powerful stories of personal discovery, loss, love, and the unexpected paths to healing. From infectious disease/HIV physician Dr. Meghan Rothenberger's journey to find herself again after a series of losses, to Med-Peds Hospitalists, Dr. Anthony Williams redefining his role as a caretaker through the lens of race and masculinity; from fourth year med student Peter Park finding a connection to his late grandfather through a cadaver in his medical school, to Pathologist Dr. Sue Wheaton reflecting on her relationship with her trailblazing mother; and from Psychiatrist Dr. Carson Brown confronting family patterns using her own clinical advice, to to Med-Peds Primary Care Physician Dr. Tiffany Albrecht balancing grief with joy, and Med-Peds primary care physician Dr. Augie Lindmark engaging in conversations about mortality with his father—each episode is a testament to the resilience and complexity of the human spirit.
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Emily Silverman is an internal medicine physician at UCSF and Creator of The Nocturnists. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, McSweeneys, and more. She was the Hellman Artist-in-Residency at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in 2020 and served on the COVID Crisis Group, which recently published the book, "Lessons from the COVID War." She lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco, and tweets @ESilvermanMD.
CREDITS
Hosted by Emily Silverman
Produced by Emily Silverman, Jon Oliver, and Sam Osborn
Select episodes recorded at Aerial View Studio in Minneapolis
Edited and mixed by Jon Oliver and Sam Osborn
This seasons' stories were coached by Kristin Moe and Molly Rose Williams. The stories were originally performed live in Minneapolis in April 2023 at "Rebirth", a performance by The Nocturnists and The Center for Art in Medicine at The University of Minnesota
All episodes were recorded in January 2024.
The Nocturnists original theme music by Yosef Munro
Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
Illustrations by Stephanie Singleton
This season of The Nocturnists is sponsored by The Physicians Foundation.
The Nocturnists is made possible by the California Medical Association, and donations from people like you!
TRANSCRIPT
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The Nocturnists: Stories from the World of Medicine
Trailer: Season 6 - Stories from the World of Medicine
Transcript
Note: The Nocturnists is created primarily as a listening experience. The audio contains emotion, emphasis, and soundscapes that are not easily transcribed. We encourage you to listen to the episode if at all possible. Our transcripts are produced using both speech recognition software and human copy editors, and may not be 100% accurate. Thank you for consulting the audio before quoting in print.
Augie Lindmark
In the spring of 2020, a mystery appeared in my mailbox. It arrived in a white envelope with a red stamp. And inside was an obituary.
Emily Silverman
From the award winning healthcare storytelling podcast, The Nocturnists comes a brand new season. Seven frontline clinicians onstage for the first time telling true stories on the theme of "Rebirth".
Carson Brown I'm paralyzed with fear. And I have a thought. WW MPD. What would my patients do? And all he
Peter Park And all he says is, "할아버지가 돌아가셨다" (Korean)/ “hal-abeojiga dol-agasyeossda” (English pronunciation), which translates to grandfather's dead.
Meghan Rothenberger She says, Well, we're gonna have to activate the protocol. And I say, I'm sorry, what's the protocol and she says the lost dog protocol! And before I can ask her what that is, she hangs up.
Emily Silverman Season 6 of The Nocturnists stories from the world of medicine, performed live in Minneapolis in collaboration with the Center for the art of medicine at the University of Minnesota drops on February 15. See you there.