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. 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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Our lungs connect us to our innermost selves, the outside world, and each other. In this episode, Emily talks to pulmonologist Dr. Michael Stephen, author of Breath Taking: What Our Lungs Teach Us Ab…
Emily talks to biographer Janice Nimura about her new book, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine, which examines the complicated and excep…
The Nocturnists Holiday Special looks back on a year like no other and celebrates the holiday season with creative contributions from healthcare workers.
Contributors include:
Alex Raines, Alina Kung…
The Nocturnists Holiday Special looks back on a year like no other and celebrates the holiday season with creative contributions from healthcare workers.
Contributors include:
Alex Raines, Alina Kung…
Pediatric critical care physician Cathy Humikowski tells the story of having a cardiac arrest the day she gave birth to her daughter. This story was originally told at The Nocturnists Transitions sho…
The Nocturnists picks up with Season 3, which was interrupted by the COVID pandemic.
Internal medicine physician David Muller tells a story about a chance encounter on the George Washington Bridge t…
The Nocturnists continues with Season 3, which was previously interrupted by the pandemic.
In this episode, family medicine doctor Miriam Sheinbein tells a story about coming to terms with ambivalenc…
The Nocturnists picks up with Season 3, which was interrupted by the COVID pandemic.
Medical student Latha Panchap shares a story about a crisis of confidence on the wards. Latha was the winner of Th…
In this final episode of Black Voices in Healthcare, Host Ashley McMullen and Executive Producer Kimberly Manning discuss the making of the series.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimbe…
Our series began with reflections on the death of George Floyd, and ends with stories of birth. Even in the midst of tragedy, new life is beginning.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimb…
From the physical exams we conduct to diagnose disease to the reassuring handshakes before a surgical procedure, human touch is fundamental to the work we do in healthcare.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
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Have you ever looked around and realized you were the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be hard, but it might just be your superpower.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Man…
Everyone has a different origin story. This week we hear about all the roads you’ve taken to become who you are.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Manning, MD
Consulting Producer…
We know the pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color. This week, we hear about how COVID-19 has affected your lives.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Mannin…
Our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives, and can be a source of joy or pain.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Manning, MD
Consulting Producer: Emily Silverman, MD
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Many of us travel far and wide to become healthcare workers. What is home to you?
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Manning, MD
Consulting Producer: Emily Silverman, MD
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We are so much more than Black pain. This week, we focus on what makes us come alive.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Manning, MD
Consulting Producer: Emily Silverman, MD
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In our first episode of Black Voices in Healthcare, we sit with the grief of the event that set this project into motion: the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneap…
How does the pandemic end? Does it go out with a bang? Does it fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is not over.
In today’s episode you will hear from a pediatric hospitalist, laborat…