The Living Room

Originally featured in Publications Update # 77

Warning: This podcast episode deals with heavy topics and may be difficult to listen to. If you're not in the right headspace or feeling a bit down, it's perfectly okay to skip this one.

In 2015, Radiolab featured an episode that included a segment from 'The Living Room,' which originally aired on the radio show Love+Radio. I recently encountered this segment in my old notes, where I had jotted down some thoughts. I wondered if, after several years of working in oncology, listening to stories like this would become easier. After revisiting it nine years later, I must say that it does not get easier. Perhaps that’s a good thing. If it were easy to listen to such stories without having an emotional reaction, it would mean we aren’t fully experiencing our lives.