End Stage Liver Disease: Podcast with Jen Lai, Ricky Shinall, Nneka Ufere, and Arpan Patel
January 27, 2022
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes…
Medicare Advantage, Special Needs Plans, and the Hospice Carve-In: A podcast with Dr. Claire Ankuda and Dr. Cheryl Phillips
January 20, 2022
More Health Policy this week! Today, we discuss “SNPs” but this is not a podcast about haircuts during the pandemic…
Medicare Advantage and the “Medicare Money Machine”: A podcast with Dr. Don Berwick and Dr. Rick Gilfillan
January 13, 2022
Investor money and venture capital funding is pouring into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Enrollment in MA plans has more than…
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – What every Geriatrician and Palliative Care Clinician Should Know
January 6, 2022
Three months ago we did a podcast with Randy Curits about his recent diagnosis of ALS in March and what…
Celebrating GeriPal’s 200th with Leaders in Geriatrics and Palliative Care
December 30, 2021
It’s GeriPal’s 200th episode. Yup, we started the podcast in 2016 and over the years we have grown from basically…
Geriatric Oncology: Podcast with Melisa Wong and Louise Walter
December 16, 2021
Geriatric Oncology has arrived. Yes, Louise Walter has been leading the fight to improve cancer screening in older adults for…
Geriatric Anesthesia: Podcast with Mark Neuman, Liz Whitlock, and Cindy Hsu
December 10, 2021
Geriatric anesthesia is a thing. The average age of people getting surgery is increasing. Anesthesiologists and surgeons feel that with…
Burnout and Resiliency: A Podcast with Janet Bull and Arif Kamal
December 2, 2021
The great resignation is upon us. One in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. Geriatrics…
Spiritual Care in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Allison Kestenbaum, Katy Hyman, and Paul Galchutt
November 24, 2021
I don’t consider myself spiritual. For some in palliative care, this would be considered heresy as we are told “everyone…
Every deep drawn breath: Podcast with Wes Ely
November 18, 2021
Though “breath” is in the title of Wes Ely’s book (and his song choice by the Police), relationships are its…