David Elkin

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The Nocturnists · Burn the Map with David Elkin, MD · 16 Nov 2021 podcast

So we have people filtering into the room, a room that's normally reserved for very serious case conferences and talks about psychopharmacology, and some of the participants look excited and others look openly dubious and skeptical.

And my co presenters, a couple of medical students who have improv backgrounds, and I go through a few quick PowerPoint slides and we leave the one up with the core principles of improv.

And then we launch into the exercises.

We're walking around the room dialing joy and sadness up to a seven and down to a two.

People are really starting to loosen up and get into it.

And they look to the side of the room and by the door there's a young woman who's just come in.

She's late.

So I walk over to her.

And I tell her what we're doing.

And I want to tell her so much more.

I want to tell her that these simple exercises could actually lead her to more meaningful connections with her patients, that they could unearth stories that we otherwise wouldn't hear.

I want to tell her that improv could maybe even save a patient's life, or it could change her own.

I don't say those things because I know she'll have to find those things out for herself.

Come join us, I say instead.

We're going to have fun.

It's always a pleasure to see you.

For me, it was a really odd year.

I mean, doing the Nocturnist was such a high.

And I just felt like, wow, this was incredible for me.

And to be able to share that.

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