Alex Smith, Author at A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional

Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

December 15, 2022

We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducanumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. …

December 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with…

December 2, 2022

What would it take to transform dementia care? While a lot of hope and money is being put into new…

November 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? …

November 3, 2022

Health care professionals are human, and as humans we experience loss both in and out of work. You’d imagine though…

October 27, 2022

Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the “punctilious quantification of the amorphous.” She has a point. Prognosis…

October 20, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services helps to guide billions of dollars in investment and direction in research, policy,…

October 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X”…

October 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a…

September 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? For me it’s radiation induced mucositis/esophagitis. Janet Abrahm is…