Storytelling Contest: Learning
Here we share a tapestry of voices that we stitched together from the 38 audio submissions we received for our first storytelling contest on the theme of "Learning." The entries came from 28 instituti...
18 Jun 20193min
Love, Loss, and Legacy with Lucy Kalanithi, MD
Emily sits down with internist and thought leader Dr. Lucy Kalanithi to discuss her late husband's book When Breath Becomes Air and topics such as illness and identity, prognosis and uncertainty, lov...
13 Jun 201940min
The River Styx with Jenny Tiskus
After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine. Illustrations by Lindsay Mound. Original theme music by Yosef Munr...
28 Mai 201937min
Dead To Me with Maureen Miller, MD
Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1897 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathologist. Learn more about Maureen's work here. She als...
21 Mai 201933min
All That Jazz with Matthew Hirschtritt, MD
Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression. Illustrations by Lindsay Mound. Original theme music by Yosef ...
14 Mai 201929min
Good Doctor with Archna Eniasivam, MD
Hospitalist Archna Eniasivam describes the time she made a diagnostic error with one of her favorite patients. Illustrations by Lindsay Mound. Original theme music by Yosef Munro. Other music comes fr...
7 Mai 201930min
Dying to Tchaikovsky with Catherine Sonquist Forest, MD
Family medicine physician Catherine Forest listens to her one of her classical music idols serenade a dying loved one in the hospital. According to the internet, the most relaxing song in the world i...
30 Apr 201932min
Welcome To Vietnam with Bill Meffert, MD
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 priest who worked beside him. You can read more about...
23 Apr 201935min
