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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath
Episode 333
We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we're going to focus upstrea…
1 year, 11 months ago
COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody
Episode 332
In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Over the past four years, we've seen many changes—some positive, some negative. While many …
1 year, 11 months ago
Medical Cannabis Revisited: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen
Episode 331
Cannabis is complicated. It can mean many things, including a specific type of plant, the chemicals in the plant, synthetic analogs, or products that…
2 years ago
Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster
Episode 330
When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for "Guideline Directed Medical Therapy" (GD…
2 years ago
Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace
Episode 329
In fellowship, one of the leaders at MGH used to quote Balfour Mount as saying, "You say you've worked on teams? Show me your scars." Scars, really? …
2 years ago
Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski
Episode 328
Can death be portrayed as beautiful?
In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author, graphic journalist) and Fra…
2 years ago
Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar
Episode 327
If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little - it may not wo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah
Episode 326
Well-being and resilience are so hot right now. We have an endless supply of CME courses on decreasing burnout through self-care strategies. Well-bei…
2 years, 1 month ago
Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck
Episode 325
In today's podcast we set the stage with the story of Dax Cowart, who in 1973 was a 25 year old man horribly burned in a freak accident. Two thirds o…
2 years, 1 month ago
Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: A Podcast with Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey
Episode 324
Serious illness communication is hard. We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to…
2 years, 2 months ago