Are Palliative Care Providers Better Prognosticators? A Podcast with Bob Gramling
April 25, 2019
Estimating prognosis is hard and clinicians get very little training on how to do it. Maybe that is one of…
Multimorbidity – Quantifying It’s Impact on Mental and Physical Health: A podcast with Melissa Wei
April 5, 2019
On today’s podcast we talk with one of the national experts on multimorbidity, Melissa Wei. Dr. Wei is an Assistant…
Language Matters: Podcast with Brian Block and Anna DeForest
March 25, 2019
One of our first GeriPal posts was titled “Rant on Terminology,” by Patrice Villars, NP. In the spirit of looking…
Serious Illness Conversation Guide: Podcast with Rachelle Bernacki and Jo Paladino
March 14, 2019
Today’s podcast is something special. First it was our first live podcast at the annual meeting of the American Academy…
Does Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering Prevent Dementia? A Podcast with Jeff Williamson
March 8, 2019
As Eric notes in the introduction, this recent study in JAMA by Jeff Williamson and colleagues led to some very…
Time to Remove Feeding Tubes from POLST: Podcast with Susan Tolle and Elizabeth Eckstrom
February 15, 2019
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
In the 1990s, Susan Tolle helped create the POLST. Now she and Elizabeth Eckstrom want to change it. And personally,…
The Grey Continuum Between Specialty and Primary Palliative Care Social Work: A Podcast with Bridget Sumser
February 8, 2019
On this week’s podcast we have Bridget Sumser, a clinical palliative care social worker, board member for the Advanced Palliative…
Rehabbed to Death NEJM Perspective: Podcast with Lynn Flint
January 30, 2019
Three reasons you should listen to or watch this podcast: The issue of patients cycling back and forth between the…
Fever, Malaise, AMS — Is it an infection? Podcast with Jeff Caterino
January 22, 2019
Geriatrics teaches us that older adults with infections often present with non-specific symptoms rather than typical localizing symptoms of infection…
Effect of Palliative Care in ICUs: Podcast with May Hua
January 8, 2019
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with May Hua, an anesthesiologist, critical care physician, and researcher from Columbia (in…