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…
The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser
October 5, 2023
Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness…
Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan
September 28, 2023
Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First,…
Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe
September 22, 2022
Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered,…
Crisis Communication and Grief in the Emergency Department: A Podcast with Naomi George and Kai Romero
November 6, 2020
The Emergency Department (ED) is a hard place to have serious illness discussions, whether it be goals of care or…
Family Meetings for Patients with Serious Illness: Podcast with Eric Widera
September 10, 2020
No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first…
Communication Skills in a time of Crises: A Podcast with VitalTalk Faculty Drs. Back and Anderson
June 18, 2020
Despite being in the field over 15 years, I’ve never felt so far outside my comfort zone as as palliative…
Ramping up Tele-GeriPal in a Pandemic: Claire Ankuda, Chris Woodrell, Ashwin Kotwal, & Lynn Flint
May 26, 2020
As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay, one year ago…
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…
Teaching Communication Skills: Podcast with Wendy Anderson
September 26, 2018
How do you teach communication in serious illness? Can you? Do you teach it the same way to doctors and…