What Makes a Good Death? Karen Steinhauser, Rasa Mikelyte, Edison Vidal
September 18, 2025
What is a “good death”? How should we define it, and who gets to decide? Is the concept of a…
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…
Death Anxiety: Dani Chammas & Keri Brenner
July 17, 2025
What is death anxiety? We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question. And maybe this was…
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…
Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment
November 21, 2024
Denial. Substance use. Venting. Positive reframing. Humor. Acceptance. All of these are ways we cope with stressful situations. Some we…
Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster
October 17, 2024
When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy”…
Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski
October 3, 2024
Can death be portrayed as beautiful? In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author,…
Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey
August 29, 2024
Serious illness communication is hard. We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings…
End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane
March 7, 2024
Please join Eric and Alex in person for the GeriPal pub crawl at the AAHPM/HPNA annual assembly in Phoenix, Thursday…
What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind
January 11, 2024
Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people…