RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern
February 2, 2024
Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. …
RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot
January 25, 2024
In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we…
Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh
October 26, 2023
Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics,…
Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart
August 31, 2023
How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at…
Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg
July 13, 2023
Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. On that podcast…
Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers
June 29, 2023
I don’t know ’bout religion I only know what I see And in the end when I hold their hand…
Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf
June 22, 2023
In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a…
Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee
June 15, 2023
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has tremendous potential. We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and…
Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino
March 9, 2023
Psychedelics are having a moment. Enthusiasm is brimming. Legalization is moving forward in several states, following the lead of Oregon…
Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly
February 23, 2023
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You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.”…