Should Concept of the “The Good Death” Be Buried? A Podcast with VJ Periyakoil
March 14, 2018
On this week’s podcast, we talk with the authors of a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) article titled…
Tim Quill on voluntary stopping eating and drinking
February 27, 2018
For this week’s GeriPal podcast we are honored to be joined by Tim Quill, palliative care physician and bioethicist from…
Hypoglycemia in Hospice: A Podcast with Laura Petrillo
February 20, 2018
For this weeks podcast, we talk with Laura Petrillo, lead author of a recent paper published in JAMA IM titled…
Palliative care in nursing homes: Podcast with Caroline Stephens
February 13, 2018
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Nursing Homes · Palliative Care · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative…
Do proton pump inhibitors cause dementia?
February 6, 2018
Proton pump inhibitors are one of the most widely used medications. As I note in the podcast below, I was…
Helping Patients Plan for the 4th Quarter of Life: An Interview with Lee Lindquist
January 31, 2018
This week we have Lee Lindquist with us on the GeriPal podcast to talk about planning for the “4th quarter”…
Advance Care Planning in the Hospital: Are Palliative Care Doctors Doing Enough?
January 22, 2018
We have a great podcast this week exploring the advance care planning needs for hospitalized adults and what palliative care…
“It’s not that great to be rich, but it really sucks to be poor” Podcast with Lena Makaroun and Sei Lee on Wealth Disparities in the US and England
January 16, 2018
Our guests this week are Lena Makaroun, MD, a research fellow at the VA Pudget Sound, and Sei Lee, MD,…
Prognostication in Hospice and Palliative Care – A Podcast with Christian Sinclair
December 11, 2017
For this weeks podcast, we talk all about prognostication with Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair). Christian is a palliative care physician at…
Palliative Care, Chronic Pain, and the Opioid Epidemic: GeriPal Podcast with Jessie Merlin
December 5, 2017
I recently had the fortune to hear Dr. Kathy Foley talk about palliative care and the opioid epidemic. First, let…