Fever, Malaise, AMS — Is it an infection? Podcast with Jeff Caterino
January 22, 2019
Geriatrics teaches us that older adults with infections often present with non-specific symptoms rather than typical localizing symptoms of infection…
The View From Here
January 16, 2019
Imagine walking into a mythological epic and giving advice. Center stage, Achilles is about to take out Hector. From stage…
Number Needed to Tweet: Podcast with Charlie Wray
August 3, 2018
This week we talk with Charlie Wray, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, about why clinicians should use social…
Integrating Palliative Care in the Emergency Department with David Wang
April 17, 2018
This is the last in our series of GeriPal podcasts on Geriatrics and Palliative Care in the Emergency Department. In…
After intubation in the ED, 33% die in hospital: GeriPal Podcast with Kei Ouchi
March 28, 2018
In this weeks GeriPal/JAGS Podcast we talked witk Kei Ouchi, an emergency medicine physician, internist, and researcher at the Brigham…
Churning Patients Through Care Settings at the End Of Life: An Interview with Shi-Yi Wang
May 10, 2017
One-third of the Medicare patients who died in 2011 had 4 or more transitions within last 6 months of life.…
Martin Shkreli (aka PalliBro) buys Palliative Care
April 1, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) and Alex Smith (@AlexSmithMD) In other merger and acquisition news today, palliative care was bought today…
GeriPal acquired by Pallimed
April 1, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD, and Eric Widera, @EWidera We know this will come as a surprise to many of our…
Technology Will Transform Care for Older People: Truth or Hype? (Hint: HYPE)
September 7, 2015
I seem to keep hearing stories about how fancy new technologies will transform care for older persons. Living in the…
Atul Gawande, just what the doctor ordered
October 8, 2014
by: Stephanie Rogers @SERogersMD Atul Gawande is expanding the conversation about care at the end of life with his new book,…