Nov 20, 2025
In this week’s episode, we delve into the powerful documentary The Chaplain and The Doctor with two extraordinary guests: Betty Clark, the chaplain at the heart of the film, and Dr. Jessica Zitter, the physician and filmmaker who brought this story to the screen.
The film provides a deeply moving look into the...
Nov 13, 2025
In June of 2025, hospice and palliative care pioneer Ira Byock published a white paper outlining the urgent challenges facing the field today. In a nutshell, he expressed concerns that the quality of hospice care in the United States has become highly variable, with disturbing frequency of unethical practices and...
Nov 6, 2025
Today’s topic on palliative care for sickle cell disease may raise eyebrows with some of you. You might think, wait, now we’re doing sickle cell? On top of liquid cancer and transplant, kidney disease, liver disease, and survivorship? Where does it end? Do we have staff for all of this?
Well I implore you,...