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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast

Aug 29, 2024

Serious illness communication is hard. We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. That’s a hard enough task, given that most of us have never had any communication skills training. It...


Aug 22, 2024

We’ve talked about Brain Death before with Robert (Bob) Troug and guest-host Liz Dzeng, and in many ways today’s podcast is a follow up to that episode (apologies Bob for mispronouncing your last name on today’s podcast!).

Why does this issue keep coming up?  Why is it unresolved?  Today we put these questions to...


Aug 15, 2024

Anti-Asian hate incidents rose dramatically during COVID, likely fueled by prominent statements about the “Chinese virus.”  VIewed through the wider lens of history, this was just the latest in a long experience of Anti-Asian hate, including the murder of Vincent Chin, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the internment...


Aug 8, 2024

(We couldn’t resist when Miguel Paniagua proposed this podcast idea and title. And no, you’ll be relieved to hear Eric and I did not imitate the interview style of Zach Galifiniakis).

We’ve talked a good deal on this podcast about what happens before death, today we talk about what happens after.  Our guest today...


Aug 1, 2024

What is a healthy diet and how much does it really matter that we try to eat one as we age?  That’s the topic of this week's podcast with three amazing guests: Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston.

Emily Johnston is a registered dietitian, nutrition researcher, and Assistant professor at NYU.  Anna Pleet...