AI for Surrogate Decision Making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender
December 12, 2024
Surrogate decision making has some issues. Surrogates often either don’t know what patients would want, or think they know but…
Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment
November 21, 2024
Denial. Substance use. Venting. Positive reframing. Humor. Acceptance. All of these are ways we cope with stressful situations. Some we…
Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath
November 7, 2024
We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to…
Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace
October 10, 2024
In fellowship, one of the leaders at MGH used to quote Balfour Mount as saying, “You say you’ve worked on…
Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar
September 19, 2024
If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we…
Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah
September 12, 2024
Well-being and resilience are so hot right now. We have an endless supply of CME courses on decreasing burnout through…
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…
What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas
August 22, 2024
We’ve talked about Brain Death before with Robert (Bob) Troug and guest-host Liz Dzeng, and in many ways today’s podcast…
Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston
August 1, 2024
What is a healthy diet and how much does it really matter that we try to eat one as we…
Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley
July 25, 2024
We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on…