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…
Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
May 12, 2020
We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we're going to discuss on this podcast,…
COVID in New York 2: Podcast with Craig Blinderman, Shunichi Nakagawa, and Ana Berlin
March 31, 2020
In our latest series of talking with front line providers in the midst of the COVID pandemic, we talk with…
Palliative care on the front lines of COVID: Podcast with Darrell Owens
March 23, 2020
COVID-19 · Ethics · Geriatrics · Hospice · Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) · Palliative Care
Many of us with clinical roles are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Today we hear from Dr. Darrell…
Rationing Life Saving Treatments in the Setting of COVID Pandemics: A Podcast with Doug White and James Frank
March 19, 2020
You are caring for two adults with COVID-19. One who is a previously healthy 70 year old. One is 55…