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The Story Collider

Stephanie Nothelle: A last cup of coffee

The Story Collider

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4.4824 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Nothelle loves volunteering at her local nursing home, but she doesn't know what to do when one of the residents says, "I die today" and asks for a last cup of coffee -- against doctor's orders. Stephanie Nothelle is an Internal Medicine resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She is an aspiring geriatrician and has spent many hours volunteering in nursing homes and previously worked at an Adult Day Care center before attending medical school. She currently does research on cardiovascular risk factors and development of dementia. She will completing her residency in June of 2014 and then will be chief resident at her residency program before starting her geriatrics fellowship. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: http://storycollider.org/

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A science story, huh?

0:31.4

Is that all you a scientist?

0:33.0

I felt a huge.

0:35.0

And I just thought, well... It was that golden moment.

0:39.4

Because science was on my side.

0:52.9

Hey, everyone.

0:53.8

I'm Ben Lilly. And welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives.

1:00.1

This week's story is from Stephanie Nothel.

1:03.0

The story was recorded in September 2013 at Littlefield in Brooklyn as part of a partnership with everyday health.

1:10.3

The theme of the evening was aging.

1:16.6

The story that I want to tell you starts in 2007. It was the summer after I had finished my first

1:26.5

year in medical school. And that summer I was actually in Baltimore.

1:30.3

I was doing a research project on vascular risk factors of dementia.

1:35.3

I'll spare you the details of that.

1:37.3

But I remember there was one day in particular where I had spent basically the whole day

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