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The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 44:24
Medical student Oak Sonfist brings us inside their vivid dream about the Lost City of Atlantis – and the impossible decisions they face as they nav...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 39:30
Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 40:08
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
In this live panel conversation recorded on November 16, 2022 at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, Emily sits down with playwright Jake Broder, actor...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 34:49
Medical student and classically-trained cellist Melanie Ambler describes her most memorable concert, which took place over Zoom with only one other...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 45:33
Emily speaks with physician-painter Matthew Wetschler about pushing limits, the tension between presence and absence, and how he’s remained curious...
- Added: Dec 16, 2022
- Length: 43:08
Over the last nine episodes, we’ve listened to dozens upon dozens of clinicians tell their stories about shame. For this last episode of Shame in M...
- Added: Nov 20, 2022
- Length: 34:26
1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 40:56
For most clinicians, the idea of harming a patient is a worst nightmare. But in a high-stakes profession, practiced by humans in a dysfunctional sy...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 34:26
Physician Tobin Greensweig makes an unannounced visit to a patient’s house to check on him after he leaves the hospital.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 46:58
Psychiatrist Shaili Jain tells the story of a pivotal experience on a road trip with her father, and how it catalyzed her career as a PTSD speciali...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 40:19
Pediatrician Christina Lee recounts a memorable ambulance ride from residency, in which she helped transport a child from the hospital to hospice.
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 39:20
In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:02
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
Navigating the present, alongside past and future.
Today’s show, “Unstuck in Time,” is titled after the opening line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slau...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.” –Stevie Smith.
Today’s episode is titled “Lost At Sea,” for two reasons: f...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“Tell me a Story!” He said. “I’ll tell you a story.”
Invasion can be both psychological and literal. We’re very lucky to be able pair up two contr...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 43:36
82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 35:44
When caring for a young woman with a brain cancer diagnosis, medicine resident Colleen Farrell comes to grips with her own mortality.
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 33:36
In the hospital, pediatrician Dana Gal struggles with a young patient who asserts her autonomy in ways that are frustrating, and even dangerous.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 34:33
Sirisha Narayana, a hospital internal medicine physician, discusses her strong identity as a physician, and how it collided with her other identiti...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 29:46
What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 56:15
