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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast

Dec 30, 2021

It’s GeriPal’s 200th episode.  Yup, we started the podcast in 2016 and over the years we have grown from basically podcasting for Alex’s mom to now getting over 25,000 plays per month.   

So to celebrate our 200th, and given that the last two years kinda sucked in a lot of ways, we are going to pivot to...


Dec 16, 2021

Geriatric Oncology has arrived.  Yes, Louise Walter has been leading the fight to improve cancer screening in older adults for years.  But when it came to geriatricizing the way we assess and treat older adults with cancer, the evidence was thin. In our prior podcast with Supriya Mohile and William Dale on geriatric...


Dec 10, 2021

Geriatric anesthesia is a thing.  The average age of people getting surgery is increasing.  Anesthesiologists and surgeons feel that with new techniques and approaches they can perform surgery on patients at ever older ages, patients who they previously would have excluded from surgery.  

One of the key advances...


Dec 2, 2021

The great resignation is upon us.  One in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started.  Geriatrics and palliative care are not immune to this, nor are we immune to the burnout that is associated with providers leaving their jobs. 

In today’s podcast, we talk with Janet Bull and Arif Kamal...


Nov 24, 2021

I don’t consider myself spiritual.  For some in palliative care, this would be considered heresy as we are told “everyone is spiritual.”  But, hey, I’m not.  So there.  However, despite not being spiritual, I do believe that spiritual care is fundamental to the care I give patients and families.  I also...