The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
SummaryTranscriptSummary In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened...
View ArticlePsychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin
SummaryTranscriptSummary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement....
View ArticlePC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen
SummaryTranscriptSummary 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 pressed to find 3 clinical...
View ArticlePalliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC
SummaryTranscriptSummary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion...
View ArticlePublic Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt...
SummaryTranscriptSummary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general...
View ArticlePalliative Care for Kidney Failure: Sam Gelfand, Kate Sciacca, and Josh Lakin
SummaryTranscriptSummary The landscape of options for treating people with kidney failure is shifting. It used to be that the “only” robust option in the US was dialysis. You can listen to our prior...
View ArticleCachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera
SummaryTranscriptSummary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address...
View ArticleUrinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang
SummaryTranscriptSummary I have to start with the song. On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it go.” This time around several suggestions were raised. Eric...
View ArticlePalliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah...
SummaryTranscriptSummary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease), which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should...
View ArticleStepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and...
SummaryTranscriptCMESummary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. Give too much, it...
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