Conscientious Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder
January 5, 2023
Today’s podcast may be a stretch for our listeners. Please stick with us. No matter what your position on medical…
End Stage Liver Disease: Podcast with Jen Lai, Ricky Shinall, Nneka Ufere, and Arpan Patel
January 27, 2022
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes…
Life, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: a Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas
April 29, 2021
During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in…
Guardianship and End-of-Life Decision Making: A Podcast with Andy Cohen and Liz Dzeng
December 17, 2020
Surrogate decision‐making around life-sustaining treatments in the hospital even in the best of circumstances is hard. It’s maybe even harder…
Driving a Cultural Shift in the End Of Life Experience: A Podcast with Shoshana Ungerleider
December 4, 2020
What does it mean to create a cultural shift to the end of life experience? Is it even possible? How…
Aid in Dying: A Podcast with Lewis Cohen
September 5, 2019
End-of-Life · Ethics · Geriatrics · Hospice · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Palliative Care · Physician-Assisted Death (PAD)
In this week’s podcast we talk with Lew Cohen, MD, about his new book “A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over…
Quality & Safety Consideration for Patients with a POLST or Living Will
March 23, 2017
Do We Ask for Permission to Treat First? Or Treat first & Ask Questions Later? As we are educated on…
Physician-assisted death: A door worth walking through
June 15, 2016
I met him once. He was referred to me for pain management and depression. In our visit, he described a…
Aid in Dying: a triumph of choice over care?
June 7, 2016
by: Elizabeth Dzeng (@LizDzeng) On September 11, 2015, the legislative bodies of California and the United Kingdom were both faced…
Physician as Healer or Harmer? The Ethical Context of Aid in Dying
December 14, 2015
by: Elizabeth Dzeng, @LizDzeng As ethicists like to point out, what is the law is not always ethical and what is…