Episodes 46
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Sporadic
Since Feb 2021
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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A monthly podcast about pediatric palliative care, hosted by two pediatric palliative care docs, Sarah Dabagh, MD, and Daniel Eison, MD, MS. Sharing the insights, opinions, narratives, commentaries, and invectives of #pedpc.

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Episode 45: Two Hats, Revisited

Nov 03, 2025 47m Transcript

Dr. Tasha Faruqui is a pediatrician. Tasha Faruqui is the mother of Soraya, a child with medical complexity who is enrolled in pediatric hospice. For many years, Tasha tried to live two separate…

S5E6 Episode 44: Nudging

Oct 01, 2025 31m Transcript

Guiding patients and families in complex, high-stakes medical decisions, can we clinicians ever be truly neutral, or are we doomed to always nudge toward our own preferences and biases? How does the…

S5E5 Episode 43: Sedative Intent

Sep 01, 2025 39m Transcript

When all our best attempts fail to relieve suffering, we sometimes turn to palliative sedation to the point of unconsciousness. But how do we know if and when such a drastic intervention is the right…

S5E4 Episode 42: The Ethical Dilemma

Aug 01, 2025 38m Transcript

Where do ethics and palliative care overlap, and is there really no harm in doing both? Exercise your autonomy by choosing to listen to this episode, in which your beneficent hosts, Sarah and Dan,…

S5E3 Episode 41: Bookends

Jul 01, 2025 33m Transcript

There's a member of the pediatric palliative care team we all love but rarely acknowledge: The children's books we share with families that help them cope and process the terrible situations they…

S5E2 Episode 40: Nonfiction

Jun 01, 2025 32m Transcript

Dan and Sarah welcome back to the podcast two previous guests, Dr. Bob Macauley and Dr. Chris Adrian, to discuss writing books about pediatric palliative care, as well as how our clinical practice,…

S5E1 Episode 39: This Marrow Space

May 01, 2025 22m Transcript

We're back! Where did we go and why did we pause in the first place? You'll have to listen to the episode to find out all the details, but let's just say Dan conducted an extended and very personal…

S4E6 Episode 38: About Suffering

Aug 08, 2024 38m

"About suffering they were never wrong, / the old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position..." wrote W.H. Auden. For all that suffering seems to be central to our practice, how do we in…

S4E5 Episode 37: Homeward Bound

Jul 01, 2024 32m

Even before heading homeward from the Annual Assembly, Dan and Sarah decided that we needed to do an episode about one of our favorite presentations, palliative home transports. So in this interview,…

S4E4 Episode 36: Perivariability

May 06, 2024 44m

Perinatal Palliative Care! Thanks to a healthy dose of serendipity, PediPal finally wades into the ever-changing waters of palliative care before, during, and after birth. Sarah and Dan talk with…

S4E3 Episode 35: Take-Home Points

Apr 01, 2024 16m

PediPal goes on the road! Dan brings his microphone to Phoenix, AZ, for the 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, ambushing unsuspecting guests with that classic PediPal question,…

S4E2 Episode 34: Prognosticaution

Mar 04, 2024 25m

Where do the fields of Palliative Care, Neurology, and PM&R overlap? Where can we learn more about how to approach the dreaded uncertainty of neurologic prognostication? In this episode!…

S4E1 Episode 33: Art and Craft

Feb 01, 2024 34m

The episode we really wanted to call "2 Julie 2 Hauer."Julie Hauer is back on PediPal! This time, she's here to discuss with Sarah and Dan what we do when we're beyond the guidelines, short on…

S3E8 Episode 32: Retrospective

Jan 01, 2024 16m

It's 2024! As PediPal enters its fourth year, we want to take a moment to look back on what we've learned over the last three years. So for the first time (and hopefully the last), we have no guests,…

S3E7 Episode 31: Boundaries

Nov 01, 2023 26m

How and where do we draw the boundaries between ourselves and our patients and families? What other boundaries do we draw--or not draw so well--in pediatric palliative care? Here to discuss these…

S3E6 Episode 30: Concrete

Oct 01, 2023 44m

Death. Dying. Simple words, but often hard to say, and even harder to say to a child. In this episode, Sarah and Dan turn to some experts on saying difficult things to children, Certified Child Life…

S3E5 Episode 29: Magic?

Sep 01, 2023 41m

Turn on, tune in, and drop your preconceptions, because in this episode, Sarah and Dan are your guides on a trip into the realm of psychedelics in pediatric palliative care. We join Dingle Spence,…

S3E4 Episode 28: PawdiPal

Aug 01, 2023 46m

Interdisciplinary teams are so vital to the practice of palliative care, and in today's episode, the PediPal team explores a new kind of team member: What has four paws, has mastered the art of being…

S3E3 Episode 27: Competent

Jul 01, 2023 27m

Get psyched because PediPal is back! In this episode, Sarah and Dan interview two psychologists, Amanda Thompson and Rachel Kentor, about creating competencies for pediatric palliative psychology and…

S3E3 Episode 26: Permission

Apr 03, 2023 38m

If you're working in pediatric palliative care and you haven't heard of Courageous Parents Network, put down this podcast immediately and go make yourself familiar with the amazing resource that is…

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