Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano
July 10, 2025
What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120…
Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath
November 7, 2024
We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to…
Palliative Care for Kidney Failure: Sam Gelfand, Kate Sciacca, and Josh Lakin
May 30, 2024
The landscape of options for treating people with kidney failure is shifting. It used to be that the “only” robust…
Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani
October 13, 2022
When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X”…
GeriPal Podcast: Vanessa Grubbs on Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
June 9, 2017
Today’s GeriPal Podcast features Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has blogged before for…
Dying to be heard, Part 2
September 27, 2016
Click here for a link to Dying to be heard, Part 1 I meant it when I told Mr. Garcia…
Dying to be heard
September 19, 2016
In the notes of the three nephrologists who had seen Carlos Garcia in the weeks before me, I read about…