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…
How Pharma Invents Diseases: A Podcast with Adriane Fugh-Berman
May 16, 2024
Who gets to decide on what it means to have a disease? I posed this question a while back in…
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…
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…
Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent
May 26, 2022
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Covid/bioethics podcast (see prior ethics podcasts here, here, here, and here). But…
Is nudging patients ethical? Podcast with Jenny Blumenthal-Barby and Scott Halpern
September 30, 2021
I’m going to start this introduction the way Eric ended our podcast. You are a GeriPal listener. Like us, you…
Brain Death: A Podcast with Robert Truog
October 1, 2020
In 1968 a committee at Harvard Medical School met to lay down the groundwork for a new definition of death,…
Advance Care Planning is Wrong: Podcast with Sean Morrison
August 27, 2020
Advance Care Planning · Ethics · Geriatrics · Health Policy Action Committee (HPAC) · Palliative Care
Sean Morrison dropped a bomb. It’s a perspective I’ve heard before from outside of palliative care, most clearly by bioethicists Angie Fagerlin…
Outsized Impact of COVID19 on Minority Communities: Podcast with Monica Peek and Alicia Fernandez
June 4, 2020
This was a remarkable podcast during this moment in which our country is hurting in so many ways. Today’s topic…
Rationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White
June 2, 2020
The question of who should get limited supplies of drugs that treat COVID-19 is not a theoretical question, like what…