Nate Goldstein – The Role of Palliative Care in Heart Failure
February 1, 2017
On today’s podcast we interview Nathan Goldstein (@drnategoldstein), Chief of the Division of Palliative Care for Mount Sinai Beth Israel…
Vicki Jackson on Building the Evidence Base for Palliative Care
January 25, 2017
Tremendous amount of exciting new data coming out of one of our nation’s oldest palliative care services: Massachusetts General Hospital…
Palliative care: the long view
December 21, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
Rejecting Neutrality – Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
December 19, 2016
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of…
GeriPal Podcast Episode 1: Bed Alarms
October 12, 2016
Welcome to GeriPal’s innagural podcast episode titled “Bed Alarms”. This is the first in a series of podcasts on all…
What is your front desk saying about palliative care?
September 9, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Do you know what the operator or person at the front desk is saying about palliative…
JAMA ICU Trial: Messaging, Information Toxicity, and The Simpsons
July 13, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD There’s been some terrific discussion about the ICU trial published in JAMA. I’d like to share…
Fast food-style palliative care consults found inneffective, may cause PTSD
July 6, 2016
by: Alex Smith, MD. Alex Smith was formerly a palliative care attending at UCSF. Now that his work has been…
Aid in dying: a wedge issue for palliative care
June 10, 2016
by: Alex Smith MD, @AlexSmithMD I’ve written before about my evolution in thinking about aid in dying. How, while I…
Just ask-tell-ask: Physician-Surrogate discordance about prognosis in the ICU
May 18, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I’m sure that all of us have encountered this scenario: the doctor thinks patient’s prognosis is…