Podcast Episodes

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

Episode 353

More and more people are, “doing their own research.”  Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse treatments that are potentially harmful and have little…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky

Episode 352

I read Farah Stockman’s article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all, and thought, “Yes, and ‘everyone’ includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families.”

So …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Episode 351

Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department.  I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who …

Published on 5 months ago

GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole

Episode 350

Whelp, goodbye folks!  Eric and I have been DOGE’d.

In a somewhat delayed April Fools, Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole have taken over podcast host duties this week.

Their purpose is to int…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

Episode 349

A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in “real-world” clinical practice.  Outcomes are typically assessed from available records.  Eligibility in pragmatic tria…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

Episode 348

Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and multiple episodes…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

Episode 347

As far as we’ve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way?

In today’s po…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Episode 346

I was very proud to use the word “apotheosis” on today’s podcast.  See if you can pick out the moment.  I say something like, “Palliative care for people experiencing homelessness is, in many ways, t…

Published on 6 months ago

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

Episode 345

Much like deprescribing, we plan to revisit certain high impact and dynamic topics frequently.  Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

Episode 344

Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. That’s my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talki…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago