Cleaning Up with Emmeline Sun, LCSW
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What prompted Emily to open the episode with a COVID‑related update?
Hey everyone, it's Emily. I am recording this on my iPhone in my bedroom. Uh it's Monday, March sixteenth, and it's been a really strange couple of weeks with the explosion of the COVID pandemic. And yesterday I actually took care of my first PUI patient under investigation for COVID. And I learned how to don and doff my personal uh protective equipment with a face shield and a mask and gloves and a gown and I had to sign my name before I went into the room and all of that and Um It's just producing a really weird emotional reaction in me where I have some moments where I'm feeling like really energized to bring my skills to this problem and help people out and do my part and gives me a sense of purpose.
Um, but I also have these moments of like complete and utter panic and fear of myself getting sick and the people I love getting sick and Anyway, it's been a really interesting psychological place to inhabit as a doctor on the front lines and I imagine a lot of you are going through that too. And I just wanted to name that and say that we as the nocturneist community are here for you and we hold you in this experience. And um We also want to give you the opportunity to share whatever it is that you're experiencing with us. So Just to formally announce, the Nocturne is going to be collecting stories about COVID. And unlike our usual story submission process, these stories don't have to be perfect and polished, uh, 10-minute-long, you know, complete uh narratives with a perfect arc and conflict and stakes and things like that.
I think right now, really, what we want is just more. some raw experience, raw emotion, and just snippets, it whether it's an image or a few sentences, or if you have a full story, that's totally fine. But we want to hear from you about what it's been like working on the front lines during this historic moment. So if you're interested in contributing, um you can visit our website at thenocturnist.com backslash tell dash your dash story. And you'll see our page where we're collecting COVID stories. We're also uh interested in Identifying a few people on the front lines who want to keep an audio diary. So if you're interested in that more extended storytelling opportunity, just send us an email at thenocturnist at gmail dot com.
And uh send us your experience. We're all going through this together, and even though we're having all this physical distancing, I hope we don't have too much. um social or emotional distancing because we're all, you know, in this together and um yeah. So I just wanted to make that announcement and wish everybody health and safety during this time of uncertainty. And with that, here is our latest episode. Enjoy.
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We talk a lot on this show about how medical care is siloed. Patients may have a different doctor for every organ, but no one looking out for the whole person in the context of the life they're living. Sometimes all the medical care in the world is useless if a person doesn't have the ability to care for themselves when they leave the doctor's office or the hospital. Social workers can help them with that. They meet patients where they are. This is The Nocturnist, stories from the world of medicine. I'm Emily Silverman. In this episode, social worker Emmeline Sun tells a story about one of her clients, how she built trust with him, and how caring for him came to mean betraying that trust.
I read him his rights knowing that he wasn't hearing me, and then they strapped him into the back of an ambulance and took him away.
Afterward, Emmeline and I talk more about caring for patients within a deeply inadequate and sometimes traumatizing medical system. Here's Emiline.
And then there was Robin. His conviction history was chaotic.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What prompted Emily to open the episode with a COVID‑related update?
0:00–5:12
2
How does Emmeline Sun describe her first encounter with the client named Robin?
5:12–15:20
3
Why does Robin’s “soft‑spoken lisp” and artistic gifts change Emmeline’s perception of him?
15:20–33:04
4
What led Emmeline to read Robin his rights and place him in a 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold)?
33:04–37:55