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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
Episode 356
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests are all trained in critical…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Psilocybin in Serious Illness: A Podcast with James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross
Episode 355
We've covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine, and then again in …
8 months ago
HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene
Peter Selwyn, one of today's guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that time, care of people with HIV has changed …
8 months, 1 week ago
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 treatm…
8 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…
8 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…
9 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 podc…
9 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 …
9 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…
9 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, h…
10 months ago