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 nocturnous 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 and medical education and bridging across differences.

She is one of my favorite people in the world and just wanted to go ahead and turn it over to the wonderful Ashley McMullen.

Here's today's episode.

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