Improving Advance Care Planning for Latinos with Cancer: A Podcast with Fischer and Fink
August 6, 2019
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Stacy Fischer, MD and Regina Fink, RN, PhD, both from the University…
Time to Remove Feeding Tubes from POLST: Podcast with Susan Tolle and Elizabeth Eckstrom
February 15, 2019
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
In the 1990s, Susan Tolle helped create the POLST. Now she and Elizabeth Eckstrom want to change it. And personally,…
Rehabbed to Death NEJM Perspective: Podcast with Lynn Flint
January 30, 2019
Three reasons you should listen to or watch this podcast: The issue of patients cycling back and forth between the…
Priming Patients and Clinicians for Goals of Care Conversations: Podcast with Randy Curtis
November 14, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we interview Randy Curtis, Professor of Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care and Director of the Palliative…
Dementia Specific Advance Directive: Podcast with Barak Gaster
June 14, 2018
In this weeks GeriPal podcast, we interview Dr. Barak Gaster, Professor of Medicine and General Internist at the University of…
Palliative care in nursing homes: Podcast with Caroline Stephens
February 13, 2018
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Nursing Homes · Palliative Care · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative…
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…
How to Recommend to Stop Cancer Screening: An Interview with Nancy Shoenborn
June 17, 2017
What should you say to your older patient when it’s time to stop cancer screening? This week’s GeriPal Podcast features…
Rebecca Sudore on Advance Care Planning: The Prepare Trial
May 18, 2017
BREAKING! We are posting this the moment the embargo lifts on Rebecca Sudore’s Prepare trial. As most of you know,…
Using Our Pink Friend (POLST) Appropriately: Please Help!
April 24, 2017
The National POLST Paradigm Task Force (NPPTF) has just released their updated “Appropriate POLST Paradigm Form Use Policy,” which can…