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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho
Episode 213
Buprenorphine. It's been around for a long time but is acting like the hot new kid in town. Just look at this year's AAHPM meeting, where it felt l…
4 years, 6 months ago
Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco
Episode 212
In her essay "Why Read a Poem in a Time Like This?", Marilyn McEntyre writes:
All of us need it. We need it because good poems do something prose can…
4 years, 7 months ago
Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold
Episode 211
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, "Can We Agree to Disagree?"
And today our guests agree to disagree.…
4 years, 7 months ago
Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia
Episode 210
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. While we like…
4 years, 7 months ago
Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert
Episode 209
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are lik…
4 years, 8 months ago
Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?
Episode 208
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It's not a new debate but has gathered steam a…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee
Episode 207
My mom is an Asian woman in her 70s with osteoporosis. She tried an oral bisphosphonate and had horrible esophagitis. She said never again, though …
4 years, 8 months ago
International Palliative Care: A Podcast with Kathy Foley, Stephen Connor, Eric Krakauer
Episode 206
This week many of our listeners will gather for the annual American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) & Hospice and Palliative Nursi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Structural, Institutional, and Interpersonal Racism: Podcast with Deborah Ejem and Deep Ashana
Episode 205
In prior podcasts we talked about racism and COVID, lack of diversity in the palliative care workforce, racial and ethnic differences in end of li…
4 years, 9 months ago
End Stage Liver Disease: Podcast with Jen Lai, Ricky Shinall, Nneka Ufere, and Arpan Patel
Episode 204
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes are worse…
4 years, 9 months ago