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…
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…
How do we serve the very sick, very frail, and very old? Podcast with Guy Micco
October 22, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Guy Micco, MD, a longtime bioethicists, internist, hospice physician, teacher in the…
Is Suicide Ever Rational? A Podcast with Meera Balasubramaniam
April 26, 2018
There is a lot of discussion about the right to die. Although most of these have to do with Physician…
Tim Quill on voluntary stopping eating and drinking
February 27, 2018
For this week’s GeriPal podcast we are honored to be joined by Tim Quill, palliative care physician and bioethicist from…
Sweet Little Lies: Is it Ever Ok to Lie to Our Patients?
November 2, 2016
Truth telling is an ethical pillar of medicine. But, are there instances when it is ever ok to lie to…
Round-up of physician aid in dying news in California
September 2, 2016
By: Laura Petrillo, @lpetrillz The End of Life Option Act has been in effect in California for almost three months. …