The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Michigan professor, Robert Ettinger proposed cryonics in 1964 in a book called The Prospect of Immortality, which argued that death could, in fact, be a reversible process. There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I have written about it in the book. Tom: Okay, great. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? She has a TED talk. When were you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Individuals had no control. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. It could be viewed as two different ways.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Wait, what ? .

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. And I’ve had that happen.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary So you want to write a book. So you want to write a book! So…you want to write a book?!? You can hear our prior podcast on Louise’s book here ). We talk with them about writing for the lay public, including: Why write a book for the lay public? How did they start writing a book?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. Julien: But every time we look at one of these individual interventions, we’re not always seeing what we want to see. And I really want to encourage people to … Wes Ely writes beautifully about that in his book.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Alex 00:20 We are delighted to welcome Anna Pleet, who did her medical training in Italy and is now doing internal medicine residency in the United States. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Glad to be here again.

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