Larry Cripe

Policy & Politics

The Ways We Might Die: Reflecting on the Conversations We Don’t Have

This year, for the first time, Medicare is reimbursing physicians for the time spent discussing patients’ preferences for care at the end of life. For Dr.…
Personal Health

Speaking of Loss

I knew that a child had died by the way that she paused and glanced at her husband when I asked “how many children do you have?” She was eighty-four years…
Coronavirus

"Whatever It Is You Do, You Do Well"

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/051814_8.mp3In this Grace Notes essay, Larry Cripe, M.D., reflects upon the death of a patient whose dying words…
Mental Health

Sound Medicine August 30, 2009

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/083009_full.mp3This week on Sound Medicine: High school athletes and heat stroke; drug companies and healthcare…
Sound Medicine Radio Hour

Sound Medicine: March 22, 2009

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/032209_full.mp3Topics this week include work rules for medical residents; changes in federal policy on embryonic…

Sick Season 2

Incarcerated people are some of the sickest people in our country. Many have chronic conditions such as diabetes or lung disease. And they’re far more likely to suffer from mental illness and addiction. On Season 2 of Sick, listen to stories of what goes wrong in corrections facilities — places meant to keep people healthy, but built to punish them.

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