Medical Cannabis Revisited: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen
October 24, 2024
Cannabis is complicated. It can mean many things, including a specific type of plant, the chemicals in the plant, synthetic…
Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster
October 17, 2024
When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy”…
Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck
September 5, 2024
In today’s podcast we set the stage with the story of Dax Cowart, who in 1973 was a 25 year…
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…
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…
Loneliness and Social Isolation: Podcast with Carla Perissinotto and Ashwin Kotwal
August 19, 2021
Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than…
Let It Break
January 26, 2021
by: Abigail Nathanson, Bridget Sumser, Shirley Otis-Green, and BJ Miller These are survival times. The pandemic, the drawn-out election, the…
Reducing serious fall-related injuries: an interview with NEJM STRIDE Study author Tom Gill
September 17, 2020
Every year, about a third of older adults fall. About one in five of those falls result in moderate to…
The Overlooked Never Event
March 16, 2017
by: Ryan Van Wert, MD John’s Story Since his college days, John was always a runner. Now at age 65, limping…