Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Oct 6, 2022 · 50m

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy:

From a Latin word for "to cloak", it's the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing

What struck me most was not that palliative care was a question, nor that it made it seem that palliative care isn't provided alongside care directed at curing, nor was it that hospice was the first buzzed in response, but it was that palliative care was the $2000 question in the Double Jeopardy round! The fact that palliative care was the hardest of questions told…