Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnilateral DNR? Gina Piscitello, Erin DeMartino, Will Parker
Episode 392
Do you think your hospital should allow unilateral DNR orders? Under what circumstances? Through what process? Do you think that when you obtain the…
8 months ago
Embedding Care in the ED: Liz Goldberg and Lauren Southerland
Episode 391
The idea of embedding various forms of non-emergency care in the emergency department makes a WORLD of sense. If an older adult comes into the ED wi…
8 months, 1 week ago
AI and Healthcare: Bob Wachter
Episode 290
Today we interviewed Bob Wachter about his book, "A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future." You may recal…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Role of Specialty Palliative Care in Cancer Surgery: Rebecca Aslakson & Myrick Shinall
Episode 389
Recent randomized controlled trials have shown that routine perioperative palliative care does not improve outcomes for patients undergoing curative-…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Future of Palliative Care? Community-Based Models with Alan Chiu, Mindy Stewart-Coffee, and Ben Thompson
Episode 388
"I just want to say one word to you. One word. Plastics… There's a great future in plastics."
This iconic line from the movie The Graduate is at th…
9 months ago
Uncertainty In Medicine: Jonathan Ilgen and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Episode 387
The only certainty in medicine is uncertainty. It touches every aspect of clinical practice, from diagnosis to treatment to prognosis. Despite this, …
9 months, 1 week ago
Why We Need QI Collaboratives: Guests Steve Pantilat, David Currow, and Arif Kamal
Episode 386
In a recent episode of the GeriPal podcast, we explored whether the field of palliative care is in need of saving—and, if so, how to save it—with gu…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Is Attending to Clinician Distress Our Job? Sara Johnson, Yael Schenker, & Anne Kelly
Episode 385
Have you had one of those consults in which you're thinking, huh, sounds like the patient's goals are clear, it's really that the clinician consultin…
10 months ago
Rehab and Death in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint
Episode 384
In this week's podcast, we sit down with Drs. Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint, three authors of the recent Journal of the American G…
10 months, 1 week ago
Inflammaging: Brian Andonian, Sara LaHue, Joe Hippensteel
Episode 383
Six years ago we had John Newman on GeriPal to talk about Geroscience (Song choice Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen, perfect selection). John expl…
10 months, 2 weeks ago