Musical Rounds
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks at the hospital bedside. Co-hosted by resident physician Melanie Ambler and her cello named Shelby, each episode is a session with a patient receiving palliative care recorded live in a single take: an unscripted story, a cello score improvised in real time. 75 of the first 100 patients asked for their stories to be shared. They wanted to reach people they may never meet. This series honors that ask. New episodes every Tuesday.
Episodes
A man meets Shelby the cello and decides he wants to go somewhere he's never been: a canyon in New Zealand, hunting red stag. As the low tones carry him into the landscape, he lifts his binoculars instead of his rifle, watching the stag rather than taking the shot. From there it's a walk through a pine forest, soft underfoot, sunlight breaking through the trees.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses sha...
A woman takes us to her favorite place on earth, which turns out to be a person: her husband. The man who taught her what safety feels like. She tells the story of spotting him across the pillow section at Kmart, throwing a pillow at him, and ducking. Thirty years later, she still calls him her blue light special, the one she got to pick out and take home.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their l...
Meet a man who's lived the life of a hummingbird, with his family joining him in his garden for one last happy party. We hear stories from his youth waking up in the moat of an English castle with bats flying overhead, to decades of life lessons, and an everlasting joy for the "most amazing bird in all the world."
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into liv...
A cellist walks into a hospital room, and the most annoying sound in medicine becomes something unexpected. Meet Melanie Ambler and Shelby the cello, and the moment that started Musical Rounds.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
Hosted by cellist and resident physician Melanie Ambler (and her cello Shelby), this serie...
A tale of radical acceptance. A woman who has had six cancers since age 23 shares why she stopped fighting — and started making friends.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
The people you will meet in this series are receiving palliative care, a field of medicine focused on comfort and dignity near the end of lif...
A beautiful glass doll is dancing in circles, trying to bring happiness everywhere it goes. It doesn't know it's broken. A story of Afghanistan, family, and a spirit that refuses to be extinguished.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
The people you will meet in this series are receiving palliative care, a field of med...
A cabin in the Sierras where the kids sleep on the floor, everyone piles onto a Polaris, and you head as far into the woods as you can go. Then a diagnosis threatens all of it.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
The people you will meet in this series are receiving palliative care, a field of medicine focused on comfo...
He used to clean a high school orchestra room and he can still hear every instrument. From a symphony hall in Mexico City to a hospital bed in California, he's still flying.
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
The people you will meet in this series are receiving palliative care, a field of medicine focused on comfort ...
Musical Rounds is a podcast where people with serious illnesses share their life stories, and we transform them into live, improvised soundtracks.
Hosted by cellist and resident physician Melanie Ambler (and her cello Shelby), this series began as a year-long research project while she was a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine.
During bedside sessions in palliative care at three hospitals in the Bay ...
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