Visions and Voices with Emily Silverman, MD
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Hey everyone, a couple quick announcements before we start today's episode. First, our call for stories is open for our upcoming live show in New York City on Saturday, November 4th on the theme of taking care, which we are producing in collaboration with Bellevue Literary Review. If you'd like to pitch a story for the show, visit our website and you'll find all the information you need. Pitches are open to anyone who has been involved with the caregiving experience. So that includes doctors, nurses, family caregivers, hospice workers, doulas, veterinarians, and so much more. So I hope you'll check that out. Second, I want to tee up this episode of The Nocturnist because it's a bit of an unusual episode.
It's unusual because this episode features me as a storyteller and a guest, and you'll hear a little bit more about that later. But since I'll be in the guest role here, I've invited my very good friend, Ashley McMullen, to be the guest host on this episode. So she'll be introducing my story and then interviewing me afterward about it. Many of you know Ashley as the host of the Nocturnist Black Voices in Healthcare series and as the current co-host, along with Kimberly Manning, of the podcast The Human Doctor. Ashley is a primary care physician at the San Francisco VA and focuses on the role of narrative medicine in medical education and bridging across differences. She is one of my favorite people in
in the world and just wanted to go ahead and turn it over to the wonderful Ashley McMullen. Here's today's episode. This episode of The Nocturnist is sponsored by FlipMD. FlipMD is a competitive marketplace where physicians can source and secure consulting side gigs. Jobs come from a broad range of clients across all major industries who are looking for medical experts in their field. FlipMD allows physicians to expand their careers through consulting and other non-clinical roles that fit their schedule and their interests. To learn more, visit flip-md.com. This season of The Nocturnist is sponsored by the Physicians Foundation. Support for The Nocturnist comes from the California Medical Association.
At The Nocturnist, we are careful to ensure that all stories comply with healthcare privacy laws. Details may have been changed to ensure patient confidentiality. All views expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer.
You're listening to The Nocturnist, stories from the world of medicine. I'm your guest host, Ashley McMullen. I'm thrilled to be here with you all. If you know me, you know I'm a huge fan of The Nocturnist. So what an honor it is for me to be able to serve as your guest host for this episode. In the fall of 2022, The Nocturnist produced a live show on the theme of sleep and dreams in collaboration with the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, the Global Brain Health Institute, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. And through a series of interesting events, which you'll hear about later, Emily shared a story on stage at that event for the very first time since starting The Nocturnist in 2016. In her story, Emily talks about a few mysterious dream experiences she's had over the course of her life, and how her usual strategy of seeking answers in medical textbooks left her empty-handed.
In the conversation that follows, Emily and I get to talk about dream symbolism, Emily's strange experiences with sleep paralysis, and the places she turns when science fails to explain. But before we get there, here's Emily.
When I was a little girl, I would sit at the kitchen table and look at my hand. And I would wiggle my fingers and wonder, how could a thought cause my body to move? This curiosity is part of what propelled me to medical school. When I arrived at medical school, I read voraciously. I sat wrapped in all of my lectures. I was ecstatic as I looked at blood under the microscope, the red cells, the white cells, the platelets. I loved looking at the lymphoid tissue under the microscope, so purple and beautiful. Loved learning about the heart, the lungs, the liver, the spleen, what it all did and how it was all connected.
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