Communication Archives | A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional

Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

October 12, 2023

For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these…

October 5, 2023

Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness.…

September 28, 2023

Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First,…

September 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered,…

November 6, 2020

The Emergency Department (ED) is a hard place to have serious illness discussions, whether it be goals of care or…

September 10, 2020

No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first…

June 18, 2020

Despite being in the field over 15 years, I’ve never felt so far outside my comfort zone as as palliative…

May 26, 2020

As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay, one year ago…

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…

September 26, 2018

How do you teach communication in serious illness? Can you? Do you teach it the same way to doctors and…