A Strategic Path Forward for Hospice & Palliative Care: Ira Byock, Kristi Newport, Brynn Bowman
November 13, 2025
In June of 2025, hospice and palliative care pioneer Ira Byock published a white paper outlining the urgent challenges facing…
Palliative Care in Sickle Cell: Craig Blinderman, Stephanie Kiser, Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa
November 6, 2025
Today’s topic on palliative care for sickle cell disease may raise eyebrows with some of you. You might think, wait,…
Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman
October 23, 2025
I’m going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield &…
What Makes a Good Death? Karen Steinhauser, Rasa Mikelyte, Edison Vidal
September 18, 2025
What is a “good death”? How should we define it, and who gets to decide? Is the concept of a…
Is Geriatrics-focused Primary Care (GeriPACT) Better? Nicki Hastings, Kristie Hsu, and Ken Covinsky
September 4, 2025
On today’s podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned…
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Who It Helps Most: Eric Wong and Thiago Silva
August 21, 2025
In today’s podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, about the comprehensive…
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…