We Need a Care Revolution: Victor Montori
July 31, 2025
In his book, “Why We Revolt,” Victor Montori decries the industrialization of healthcare. We’ve become a healthcare factory, beholden to…
System Wide Goals of Care Implementation: A Podcast with Ira Byock, Chris Dale, and Matt Gonzales
July 24, 2025
Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients’ goals, especially for those…
Death Anxiety: Dani Chammas & Keri Brenner
July 17, 2025
What is death anxiety? We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question. And maybe this was…
Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano
July 10, 2025
What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120…
Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho
June 26, 2025
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time…
Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt
June 19, 2025
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners! Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:…
What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar
June 12, 2025
If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation…
Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
May 29, 2025
Have any of you watched the movie “The Notebook”? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences…
Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
May 22, 2025
As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the…
Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan
April 24, 2025
More and more people are, “doing their own research.” Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse…