Trailer: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
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What does the opening story reveal about the feeling of shame during a medical crisis?
One of those events that you live in fear of as a resident, as a physician, where you and everyone around you, and there were a lot of people in the room. know that something has just gone terribly wrong. And it's almost like time stops. I feel incredibly uncomfortable. And incredibly exposed.
How did a philosopher’s email spark the investigation into shame in medicine?
And what I see are the eyes of the people standing around me. And I feel the judgment. And the only thing I know to do in that moment some sort of subconscious primitive impulse. Is to leave the room.
A couple years ago I got an email from a philosopher in the United Kingdom named Luna Dolzal. Luna had been listening to The Nocturnist for years, and she wanted to know if I'd ever noticed that the emotion of shame was coming up again and again in these stories.
Why did the hosts realize shame was pervasive yet unspoken in healthcare?
I had not noticed this, but I went back and listened to several of our old episodes and I realized that she was right. I started to see shame everywhere in medicine. And what was stranger was that nobody was talking about it. And so Luna and I decided to team up with Dr. Will Bynum from Duke University to investigate this incredibly powerful emotion and how it manifests in medical culture.
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What personal reactions do clinicians describe when confronting shame in their work?
unkind and outrageous things that are totally ridiculous. But the only way that you find out how ridiculous you are treating yourself is when you talk to your colleagues about their own experiences and you realize how universal some of these shame experiences are. He presented it in a way that said, You should have known this, you missed something big. And at that moment, I felt my stomach drop and felt like I wanted to sink into the floor. When I think about this, the words just sort of go away.
When does the trailer announce the upcoming 10‑episode series and its purpose?
Um, it's almost like there's a protective mechanism that's tripped off that says, Hey, that's not something that you should be talking about. And why why did I beat myself up over it so much? For once I went from complete suffocation. To now I could actually take my first few breaths.
Shame in Medicine, The Lost Forest, is a 10-episode audio documentary series that premieres next week. See you then.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What does the opening story reveal about the feeling of shame during a medical crisis?
0:04–0:25
2
How did a philosopher’s email spark the investigation into shame in medicine?
0:25–1:03
3
Why did the hosts realize shame was pervasive yet unspoken in healthcare?
1:03–1:33
4
What personal reactions do clinicians describe when confronting shame in their work?
1:33–2:08
5
When does the trailer announce the upcoming 10‑episode series and its purpose?
2:08–2:39