Podcast Episodes

Medical Billing and Coding with the "Billing Boys"

Episode 373

A podcast on medical billing and coding??? Ok, hear us out as we were skeptical too. We’ve invited the Billing Boys, Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers, who convinced us of the following:

Billing is comp…

Published on 7 hours ago

Is Geriatrics-focused Primary Care (GeriPACT) Better? A Podcast with Nicki Hastings, Kristie Hsu, and Ken Covinsky

Episode 372

On today’s podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned Care Team (GeriPACT) program.  It’s designed with smaller patien…

Published on 1 week ago

Do Dementia Care Management Programs Work? A Podcast with David Reuben and Greg Sachs

Episode 371

With all the attention focused on Alzheimer's biomarkers and amyloid antibodies, it’s easy to forget that comprehensive dementia care is more than blood draws and infusions. On today’s podcast, we bu…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Who It Helps Most - Eric Wong and Thiago Silva

Episode 370

In today’s podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, about the comprehensive geriatrics assessment.  We spend the fi…

Published on 3 weeks ago

What instead? Alternatives to Beers: Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

Episode 369

On a prior podcast we talked with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman about the update to the AGS Beers Criteria of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults (Todd and Mike co-chair the AGS Be…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Art Museum-Based Medical Education: Amy Klein, Laura Morrison, and Gordon Wood

Episode 368

Health care trainees rotate through a variety of different settings. ICUs, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics. If they're lucky, they might even spend time in a nursing home. But on today’s podca…

Published on 1 month ago

We Need a Care Revolution: Victor Montori

Episode 367

In his book, “Why We Revolt,” Victor Montori decries the industrialization of healthcare.  We’ve become a healthcare factory, beholden to health systems motivated by profit. In particular, he laments…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

System Wide Goals of Care Implementation: A Podcast with Ira Byock, Chris Dale, and Matt Gonzales

Episode 366

Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients’ goals, especially for those with serious medical problems. And yet, thes…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Death Anxiety: Dani Chammas & Keri Brenner

Episode 365

What is death anxiety?  We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question.  And maybe this was unfair to our guests, the fabulous dynamic duo of palliative psychiatrists Dani Cham…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: A Podcast with Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano

Episode 364

What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120 mmHg in all older adults, as suggested by the SPRINT trial? Or should we be more flex…

Published on 2 months ago