How We Limit Non-beneficial Life Sustaining Treatments: Jason Batten, Liz Dzeng, Teva Brender
June 11, 2026
Today’s podcast is a natural follow up to our podcasts on Slow Codes and Unilateral DNR orders.Today we talk about…
Unilateral DNR? Gina Piscitello, Erin DeMartino, Will Parker
February 19, 2026
Do you think your hospital should allow unilateral DNR orders? Under what circumstances? Through what process? Do you think that…
Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman
October 23, 2025
I’m going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield &…
GeriPal Live! at NPCRC Foley Retreat: Dio Kavalieratos, Prasanna Ananth, Alexi Wright
October 16, 2025
This is the second GeriPal podcast we’ve recorded live using this format, see this link to our prior podcast at…
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…