Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar
September 19, 2024
If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we…
Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson
July 11, 2024
In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease), which made us think,…
Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang
June 20, 2024
I have to start with the song. On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it…
Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera
June 13, 2024
I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I…
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…
Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow
May 9, 2024
On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), all of whom…
Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC
April 26, 2024
As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. …
PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen
March 28, 2024
One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years…
Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin
February 22, 2024
In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest…
The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
February 8, 2024
In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his…