Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson
July 11, 2024
In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease), which made us think,…
Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson
June 27, 2024
“Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you…
Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang
June 20, 2024
I have to start with the song. On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it…
Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera
June 13, 2024
I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I…
Palliative Care for Kidney Failure: Sam Gelfand, Kate Sciacca, and Josh Lakin
May 30, 2024
The landscape of options for treating people with kidney failure is shifting. It used to be that the “only” robust…
How Pharma Invents Diseases: A Podcast with Adriane Fugh-Berman
May 16, 2024
Who gets to decide on what it means to have a disease? I posed this question a while back in…
Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow
May 9, 2024
On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), all of whom…
Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC
April 26, 2024
As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. …
Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer
April 11, 2024
Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven’t…
Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand
April 4, 2024
In 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in…