Dec 7, 2023
To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask - why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? My kids have taught...
Dec 1, 2023
There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer's disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. This proposed new definition, championed by the Alzheimer's Association (AA) and the National Institute on...
Nov 9, 2023
Coaching is in. During the later stages of the pandemic, it seemed every other person, and particularly the junior faculty in our Division, were either being coached, in training to coach, or coaching others. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. Sure, Atul Gawande wrote about coaching in surgery -...
Nov 2, 2023
What does the future hold for geriatrics? I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. But, it's also hard not to be...
Oct 26, 2023
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 and clinical reality meet in the same day.
Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had...