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Emily Silverman, MD, talks with authors, filmmakers, and other media makers about their recent books and films for this ongoing series by The Nocturnists.

Emily Silverman, MD, talks with authors, filmmakers, and other media makers about their recent books and films for this ongoing series by The Nocturnists.


38 Pieces

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Emily sits down with internist and thought leader Dr. Lucy Kalanithi to discuss her late husband's book, When Breath Becomes Air, and topics like i...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 40:53
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Emily sits down with Dr. Matt McCarthy, an infectious disease specialist at New York Presbyterian Hospital who researches drug-resistant microbes, ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 31:15
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Emily sits down with palliative care physician Dr. BJ Miller and IDEO's Global Editorial Director, Shoshana Berger, to talk about their new book, A...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:51
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In this live podcast taping, Emily speaks with UCSF geriatrician and author Dr. Louise Aronson about her New York Times best-selling book, Elderhoo...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:28
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Emily talks to biographer Janice Nimura about her new book, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine To Women—And Women T...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 39:21
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Our lungs connect us to our innermost selves, the outside world, and each other. In this episode, Emily talks to pulmonologist Dr. Michael Stephen...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:20
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Emily sits down with Danielle Spencer to discuss her book Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity which, in identifying and naming...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 40:25
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More and more Americans are choosing to die at home in the care of a loved one. But who takes care of the caregiver? In this episode, Emily talks ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 42:47
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Many of us have had to imagine dreaded scenarios for the death of a loved one with dementia. But few have done so with as much cinematic ingenuity ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:44
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None of us have been spared from physical pain at some point or other in our lives. But most of us are unaware of how factors like context affect t...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 45:46
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As much as our culture delights in talking about sex, we do not relish discussing the sexually transmitted diseases which sometimes follow.  But ST...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 42:39
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Emily talks to Dr. Suzanne Koven, author of Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life. Dr. Koven graduated from medical school ...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 42:52
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Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 43:24
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Do no harm. Thou shalt not kill. Life is sacred and should be protected at all costs, right? But when is life no longer worth living? Who decides? ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 48:42
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The emergency room is a place of intensity—a place of noise and colors and human drama. This is the setting of Dr. Michele Harper's memoir, The Bea...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 36:02
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Alzheimer's disease used to be a rare diagnosis. But today, more than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's and this number is projecte...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 45:47
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Emily speaks with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
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In this episode, Emily speaks with cancer biologist and poet Jenny Qi, about her poetry collection Focal Point, which examines science, disease, lo...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, Emily speaks with Dr. Wesley Ely about the harms of deep sedation and immobilization in the ICU, and how he's transforming critica...

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 56:27