Homelonging with Tseganesh Selameab, MD
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Hey, everyone. Before we dive into today's episode, I have two announcements. First is that tickets are officially on sale for our live storytelling show, which is going to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Saturday, April 22nd. This is a show on the topic of rebirth. that we are producing in collaboration with the amazing Center for the Art of Medicine housed at the University of Minnesota. And actually today's guest, Saganesh Salamayab is part of the amazing team that is making this event possible. So we hope that if you're located in the Midwest, you'll buy a ticket and come see us and come to the show. It should be a really wonderful night. Second, I just wanted to announce that the Nocturnists learned this week that we're nominated for two Webby Awards, which we're really excited about.
The first nomination is for our Shaman Medicine, the Lost Forest series in the Health Science and Education podcast category. And the second nomination, which was much more surprising to us, was for our Conversation series, which we're so thrilled about. And that's in the Best Interview and Talk Show podcast category. We were pretty floored to see the Conversation series nominated there next to some of the greats like Jon Stewart and Kara Swisher. So we hope you'll visit our website and click the link to vote for us. Thank you so much to everybody who has made our show possible over the years. We're really, really grateful for the community that we've built. Now on to today's episode. This episode of The Nocturnist is sponsored by FlipMD.
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You're listening to The Nocturnists, stories from the world of medicine. I'm Emily Silverman. Today's episode features one of my favorite Nocturnist storytellers from over the years, primary care physician Saganesh Salamayab. Saganesh is a primary care doctor, and in today's story, she brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees. and describes one of the most common ailments that she sees among her patients, which she calls home longing. Saganesh works as an internist and in the field of public health at the Ramsey County Public Health System, and she's also the associate director of the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she organizes storytelling programming for medical education and practice.
We'll hear more from Saganesh about the amazing work that she does. But first, let's take a listen to the story that she told live on stage at the Nocturnal Show in San Francisco in June of 2022. Here's Saganesh.
It's cold that March morning when Rachel and I decide to meet up for our COVID coffee and walk. I had left our practice at the county hospital and I hadn't seen Rachel for a while. So I was so excited to see her waiting for me outside of the downtown coffee shop. We grabbed our steaming cups of coffee and we meandered down to the farmer's market while she told me that Julie was leaving county and all the new efforts of our chief of medicine to increase our productivity. we were kind of perusing the cheese and chutney and sharing pictures of our kids, hers and not so little toddler and my three rambunctious girls. And I was telling her the untold stories of the horrors of distance learning for our family.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What announcements and sponsor messages open the episode?
0:00–7:51
2
How does Dr. Saganesh Selameab describe her role caring for immigrants and refugees?
7:51–13:05
3
What is the story of Haneen and how does it illustrate “homelonging”?
13:05–26:17
4
How are initial intake visits for newly arrived refugees structured?
26:17–40:50