End Stage Liver Disease: Podcast with Jen Lai, Ricky Shinall, Nneka Ufere, and Arpan Patel
January 27, 2022
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes…
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – What every Geriatrician and Palliative Care Clinician Should Know
January 6, 2022
Three months ago we did a podcast with Randy Curits about his recent diagnosis of ALS in March and what…
Celebrating GeriPal’s 200th with Leaders in Geriatrics and Palliative Care
December 30, 2021
It’s GeriPal’s 200th episode. Yup, we started the podcast in 2016 and over the years we have grown from basically…
Burnout and Resiliency: A Podcast with Janet Bull and Arif Kamal
December 2, 2021
The great resignation is upon us. One in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. Geriatrics…
Spiritual Care in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Allison Kestenbaum, Katy Hyman, and Paul Galchutt
November 24, 2021
I don’t consider myself spiritual. For some in palliative care, this would be considered heresy as we are told “everyone…
Primary Palliative Care for Cancer: Podcast with Yael Schenker and Bob Arnold
October 14, 2021
“The take home message of this study is NOT that primary palliative care does not work.” So says Yael Schenker of…
Time Limited Trials in the ICU: A Podcast with Dong Chang and Richard Leiter
October 7, 2021
Time-limited trials. We’ve all probably used them before. We meet with patients and families. We agree to either start or…
Living with and studying serious illness: Podcast with Randy Curtis
September 16, 2021
Randy Curtis, a paragon of palliative care research, was diagnosed with ALS in March. Randy is in a unique position…
Palliative Care’s Diversity Problem: A Podcast with Lindsay Bell, Tessie October, and Riba Kelsey
September 9, 2021
Palliative care has a diversity problem. The workforce of palliative care looks nothing like the patient population that we care…
Race/ethnic differences in end-of-life care: Podcast with Rashmi Sharma and Zhi Jia
July 1, 2021
We have made remarkable progress in reducing the use of feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia.This has been due…