Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
May 15, 2025
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests…
Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert
March 3, 2022
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that…
Every deep drawn breath: Podcast with Wes Ely
November 18, 2021
Though “breath” is in the title of Wes Ely’s book (and his song choice by the Police), relationships are its…
Time Limited Trials in the ICU: A Podcast with Dong Chang and Richard Leiter
October 7, 2021
Time-limited trials. We’ve all probably used them before. We meet with patients and families. We agree to either start or…
Family Meetings for Patients with Serious Illness: Podcast with Eric Widera
September 10, 2020
No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first…
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…
Opening the Black Box of LTACs: Podcast with Anil Makam
October 10, 2019
What happens in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals, or LTACs (pronounced L-tacs)? I’ve never been in one. I’ve sent patients…
Language Matters: Podcast with Brian Block and Anna DeForest
March 25, 2019
One of our first GeriPal posts was titled “Rant on Terminology,” by Patrice Villars, NP. In the spirit of looking…
Effect of Palliative Care in ICUs: Podcast with May Hua
January 8, 2019
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with May Hua, an anesthesiologist, critical care physician, and researcher from Columbia (in…
Antipsychotics for ICU delirium don’t work: Podcast with Tim Girard
December 14, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Tim Girard, Plumonary Critical Care physician-researcher at the University of Pittsburgh about…