Health Policy Archives | A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional

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…

January 20, 2022

More Health Policy this week! Today, we discuss “SNPs” but this is not a podcast about haircuts during the pandemic.…

January 13, 2022

Investor money and venture capital funding is pouring into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Enrollment in MA plans has more than…

November 14, 2014

by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Vivek Murthy was nominated for Surgeon General of the United States by President Obama in November…

September 16, 2013

by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD The patient was elderly and was hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation. Fortunately, her breathing problems were…

April 15, 2012

The United States spends more on health care than any other country. By far. Yet life expectancy in the United…

April 4, 2012

For the most part in geriatrics and palliative care we like to point the finger at other medical providers and…

January 8, 2012

This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts.…

January 6, 2012

10 year stock price of Gentiva, the nation’s fastest growing for-profit hospice provider For-profit hospice has been in the news recently,…

June 24, 2011

As reported in The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, the American Medical Association recently approved a report that may have substantial impacts…