Tom Gill on Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice
November 22, 2017
In this week’s GeriPal Podcast, sponsored also by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, we talk with Tom Gill,…
What a Gatorade Bottle Taught Me About Functional Assessment
November 20, 2017
by: Leah B. Rorvig, MD, MS (@GeriPowerMD) On the third day after my arthroscopic shoulder surgery, I was finally alone at…
Global Palliative Care Takes the Stage
November 15, 2017
by: Jessi Humphreys, MD (@jessi_humphreys) Across the world, millions of individuals, largely from developing regions, suffer and die in pain,…
Skin Failure: A New Paradigm
October 30, 2017
by Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF, CWSP Skin failure is an emerging concept that deserves wider acceptance, particularly in the…
Implicit Bias and Its Impact in Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care
October 28, 2017
On this week’s podcast we have invited Dr. Kimberly Curseen to talk about how implicit bias influences us as providers…
Gretchen Schwarze on Uncertainty, Scenario Planning, and American Pie
October 11, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Communication · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Surgery
This week’s GeriPal podcast features vascular surgeon, researcher, and bioethicist Gretchen Schwarze from the University of Wisconsin. We talk with…
Palliative Wound Care: A New Frontier
September 25, 2017
By Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF, CWS-P I recently completed the revised chapter on pressure injuries for the Geriatrics Review…
Songs that Inspire, Move, or Make Us Think about Geriatrics or Palliative Care
September 12, 2017
Back in 2009, Pallimed created one of my favorite podcast posts titled “Top 10 Contemporary Palliative Care Songs”. In it,…
Long Term Aspirin and the Risk of Bleeding Complications in Older Adults
September 11, 2017
by: Allen Tong MD As a geriatrician, removing unneeded or inappropriate medications from a patient’s drug list is something that brings…
Sarah Hooper on Medical Legal Practice Clinics for Seniors
September 6, 2017
On this weeks podcast, we have Sarah Hooper, J.D., the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science…