Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
May 15, 2025
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests…
Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross
May 8, 2025
We’ve covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine,…
HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene
May 1, 2025
Peter Selwyn, one of today’s guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that…
Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan
April 24, 2025
More and more people are, “doing their own research.” Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse…
Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky
April 17, 2025
I read Farah Stockman’s article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all, and thought, “Yes,…
RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest
April 10, 2025
Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. …
GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole
April 3, 2025
Whelp, goodbye folks! Eric and I have been DOGE’d. In a somewhat delayed April Fools, Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole…
Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson
March 27, 2025
A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in “real-world” clinical practice. Outcomes are typically assessed from…
Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe
March 20, 2025
Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including…
The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders
March 13, 2025
As far as we’ve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care…