NEJM Family-Support Intervention Trial, Breakthrough or Bust? Podcast with Doug White
June 1, 2018
This week’s guest is Doug White, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and lead author of…
Communicating with Home Health: Podcast with Cynthia Boyd
May 2, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Cynthia Boyd, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School…
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…
The Overlooked Never Event
March 16, 2017
by: Ryan Van Wert, MD John’s Story Since his college days, John was always a runner. Now at age 65, limping…
Dying to be heard
September 19, 2016
In the notes of the three nephrologists who had seen Carlos Garcia in the weeks before me, I read about…
JAMA ICU Trial: Messaging, Information Toxicity, and The Simpsons
July 13, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD There’s been some terrific discussion about the ICU trial published in JAMA. I’d like to share…
VitalTalk: Mastering Serious Illness Communication
January 29, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) It was with some hesitancy I decided last year to take the VitalTalk Faculty Development course.…
Lessons from the Stage: A Lesson About Patient Communication Learned in an Improv Class
November 20, 2014
My husband and I took a beginner’s improv class not long ago. Two of the most fundamental rules they taught…
Training doctors to be a little more like cab drivers
September 24, 2014
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD As it’s early in the year, we usually like to post about some advice for trainees,…
Handshakes, handholding, and other dangerous methods of transmitting bacteria
September 10, 2014
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD In a recent study in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers coated a gloved hand in…