Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar
April 21, 2022
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are delighted to share with you the second podcast in our series on…
Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho
April 14, 2022
Buprenorphine. It’s been around for a long time but is acting like the hot new kid in town. Just look…
Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco
March 31, 2022
In her essay “Why Read a Poem in a Time Like This?”, Marilyn McEntyre writes: All of us need it…
Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold
March 24, 2022
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, “Can We Agree to…
Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia
March 10, 2022
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing…
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…
Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?
February 24, 2022
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not…
Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee
February 17, 2022
My mom is an Asian woman in her 70s with osteoporosis. She tried an oral bisphosphonate and had horrible esophagitis. …
International Palliative Care: A Podcast with Kathy Foley, Stephen Connor, Eric Krakauer
February 10, 2022
This week many of our listeners will gather for the annual American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) &…
Structural, Institutional, and Interpersonal Racism: Podcast with Deborah Ejem and Deep Ashana
February 3, 2022
In prior podcasts we talked about racism and COVID, lack of diversity in the palliative care workforce, racial and ethnic…