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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

GeriPal

Spoiler: It’s more complicated than it seems. And I was curious to learn about how people were talking about what to expect after a diagnosis of advanced cancer, how clinicians were counseling patients, how patients were understanding their prognosis and making decisions. Like at the time of diagnosis.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work.

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