Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe
March 20, 2025
Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including…
PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers
February 27, 2025
Much like deprescribing, we plan to revisit certain high impact and dynamic topics frequently. Substance use disorder is one of…
Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas
February 13, 2025
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In today’s podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual…
Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden
January 23, 2025
It’s another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed…
Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig
January 16, 2025
Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with…
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…