What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato
SummaryTranscriptSummary Amber Barnato is an expert in simulation studies. A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one...
View ArticleThe Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner
SummaryTranscriptSummary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react? The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of...
View ArticleInvolving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne...
SummaryTranscriptSummary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with...
View ArticlePsychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino
SummaryTranscriptSummary Psychedelics are having a moment. Enthusiasm is brimming. Legalization is moving forward in several states, following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. FDA is considering...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee
SummaryTranscriptSummary Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has tremendous potential. We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language...
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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf
SummaryTranscriptSummary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. This 17-bed unit serves inmates from all...
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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers
SummaryTranscriptSummary I don’t know ’bout religion I only know what I see And in the end when I hold their hand It’s both of us set free These are the ending lyrics to Bonnie Raitt’s song “Down the...
View ArticleJumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg
SummaryTranscriptSummary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and...
View ArticleNormalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner,...
SummaryTranscriptSummary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast). After the shock? Many...
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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh
SummaryTranscriptSummary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast...
View ArticleRCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and...
SummaryTranscriptSummary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He...
View ArticleRCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern
SummaryTranscriptSummary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. This week, we talk about the other major palliative...
View ArticleThe 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...
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