Pragmatic Trial to Increase Advance Care Planning: Anne Walling, Neil Wenger, & Rebecca Sudore
April 2, 2026
Today we’re delighted to talk with Anne Walling, Neil Wenger, and Rebecca Sudore about a pragmatic implementation trial aimed at…
System Wide Goals of Care Implementation: A Podcast with Ira Byock, Chris Dale, and Matt Gonzales
July 24, 2025
Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients’ goals, especially for those…
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…
Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig
January 16, 2025
Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with…
Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy
May 25, 2023
Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). …
Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold
March 24, 2022
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, “Can We Agree to…
Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?
February 24, 2022
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not…
Advance Care Planning is So Right: Podcast with Rebecca Sudore and Ryan McMahan
October 8, 2020
Last month we published a podcast with Sean Morrison that garnered a great deal of attention, in which Sean Morrison…
Advance Care Planning is Wrong: Podcast with Sean Morrison
August 27, 2020
Advance Care Planning · Ethics · Geriatrics · Health Policy Action Committee (HPAC) · Palliative Care
Sean Morrison dropped a bomb. It’s a perspective I’ve heard before from outside of palliative care, most clearly by bioethicists Angie Fagerlin…