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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer
Episode 306
Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven't explored why they are ambi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand
Episode 305
In 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in a water filled ditch. She was resuscitated by …
1 year, 9 months ago
PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen
Episode 304
One marker of the distance we've traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pre…
1 year, 9 months ago
Electronic Frailty Indexes: Kate Callahan, Ariela Orkaby, & Dae Kim
Episode 303
What is frailty? Kate Callahan relates a clear metaphor on today's podcast. A frail person is like an origami boat: fine in still water, but can't wi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia
Episode 302
Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a "Thickened Liquid Challenge." This simple challenge was focused on putting…
1 year, 10 months ago
End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane
Episode 301
In the last several years, I've seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas (like this NY Times article from 2021). Despite this, in my 20-y…
1 year, 10 months ago
GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style
Episode 300
Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts!
Eric and I take questions from you, our listeners, about: why we podca…
1 year, 10 months ago
Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin
In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are o…
1 year, 10 months ago
EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates
Episode 298
We've talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton abo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
Episode 297
In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his narrow definition of suffering a…
1 year, 11 months ago