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…
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,…