Advance Care Planning in the Hospital: Are Palliative Care Doctors Doing Enough?
January 22, 2018
We have a great podcast this week exploring the advance care planning needs for hospitalized adults and what palliative care…
“It’s not that great to be rich, but it really sucks to be poor” Podcast with Lena Makaroun and Sei Lee on Wealth Disparities in the US and England
January 16, 2018
Our guests this week are Lena Makaroun, MD, a research fellow at the VA Pudget Sound, and Sei Lee, MD,…
Palliative Care, Chronic Pain, and the Opioid Epidemic: GeriPal Podcast with Jessie Merlin
December 5, 2017
I recently had the fortune to hear Dr. Kathy Foley talk about palliative care and the opioid epidemic. First, let…
Tom Gill on Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice
November 22, 2017
In this week’s GeriPal Podcast, sponsored also by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, we talk with Tom Gill,…
Gretchen Schwarze on Uncertainty, Scenario Planning, and American Pie
October 11, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Communication · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Surgery
This week’s GeriPal podcast features vascular surgeon, researcher, and bioethicist Gretchen Schwarze from the University of Wisconsin. We talk with…
Geripal Podcast: Zara Cooper on Trauma Surgery and Geripal
September 1, 2017
If you were talking to a geriatric trauma surgeon, wouldn’t you think you’d be talking about surgery in older adults…
How to have a code status conversation with Laura Petrillo and a live studio audience
August 23, 2017
In the summer we usually cover a basic topic for the early stage learners, i.e.the new crop of medical students,…
Vicki Jackson and David Ryan on “Living with Cancer”
August 10, 2017
Symbiosis. Remember the idea that the fish and the sea turtles live in symbiosis? The fish eat the algae and…
Suzanne Gordon on The Battle for Veteran’s Healthcare
August 1, 2017
There’s a mismatch between what you read about in the papers and the debates on capitol hill about the VA…
Bringing Community Partners Together to Improve the Care of Older Adults: An Interview with Anna Chodos
July 22, 2017
For this week’s podcast, we interview Anna Chodos, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Geriatrics at…