Brian Block's guest appearances

Brian Block

The Morning After

GeriPal

David Lebovitz

John Newman

Peter Liem

Scott Bauer

Levi Dalton

Anthony Bourdain

David Burke

BJ Miller

Liz Alpern

Ivan Ramen

Talia Baiocchi

Abe Schoener

Pascaline Lepeltier

Michael Chernow

J. Kenji López-Alt

OwlTail

Sunita Puri

Denise Barchas

During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in places like New York City last spring or Los Angeles this winter.  Hospitals in these places went way past their capacity, but did this strain on the system lead to worse outcomes?  Absolutely. On today’s podcast, we talk with Brian Block, lead author of a  Journal of Hospital Medicine study that showed that patients with COVID-19 admitted to hospitals with larger COVID-19 patient surges had an increased odds of death.   We talk about the findings in his study, which also included some variation in the surge hospitals as well as potential reasons behind these outcomes. We’ve also invited two other guests, Denise Barchas and Sunita Puri, to describe their hospital experiences in a COVID surge.  Denise is a ICU nurse at UCSF who volunteered in New York during the spring surge of COVID cases.  Sunita is the Medical Director of Palliative Medicine at USC’s Keck Hospital &amp; Norris Cancer Center in Los Angeles.  She is also the author of numerous books and essays, including “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour” (if you haven't read it yet you should!)

During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in places like New York City last spring or Los Angeles this winter.  Hospitals in these places went way past their capacity, but did this strain on the system lead to worse outcomes?  Absolutely. On today’s podcast, we talk with Brian Block, lead author of a <a href="https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/237058/hospital-medicine/variation-covid-19-mortality-across-117-us-hospitals-high" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Journal of Hospital Medicine study</a> that showed that patients with COVID-19 admitted to hospitals with larger COVID-19 patient surges had an increased odds of death.   We talk about the findings in his study, which also included some variation in the surge hospitals as well as potential reasons behind these outcomes. We’ve also invited two other guests, Denise Barchas and <a href="https://sunitapuri.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunita Puri</a>, to describe their hospital experiences in a COVID surge.  Denise is a ICU nurse at UCSF who volunteered in New York during the spring surge of COVID cases.  <a href="https://sunitapuri.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunita</a> is the Medical Director of Palliative Medicine at USC’s Keck Hospital &amp; Norris Cancer Center in Los Angeles.  She is also the author of numerous books and essays, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KRLM2SJ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour</a>” (if you haven't read it yet you should!)

Life, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas

Anna DeForest

In this weeks GeriPal podcast we take a deeper dive into this issue of language and medicine. We are joined by guests Anna DeForest, MD, MFA, a resident in Neurology at Yale, and Brian Block, MD, a pulmonary critical care fellow at UCSF.

Language Matters: Podcast with Brian Block and Anna DeForest

Jenn Tullock and Pam Stubbs are back hosting yet another episode of The Morning After! Tune in this week to hear Jenn recount a ‘Front of House’ New York City restaurant horror story. Later, Jenn and Pam talk with Aaron Sherman and Gianfranco Verga about their wine, spirit, and beer website, SevenFifty. Hear about the duo’s initial interest in wine, and how it brought them together to form a a digital mega-list of wines from a myriad of distributors and producers. Hear about their innovations in the realm of wine tasting, and how you can compile all of your tasting notes online. Later, Jenn and Pam are joined by Brian Block, manager at Socarrat. Hear how Brian has enjoyed the transition from behind the bar to the floor, as well as his distaste of recent pretentious hipster cocktail revivalists. Hear Brian discuss his ideas on designing cocktails to match restaurant personalities, and why frozen drinks need to make a comeback. This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.  “In Florence, we met a lot of friendly people who introduced us to what it meant to have wine as a serious part of the culture and part of the meal- the thing that brought all of us to wine and restaurants in the first place.” — Aaron Sherman on The Morning After

Jenn Tullock and Pam Stubbs are back hosting yet another episode of The Morning After! Tune in this week to hear Jenn recount a ‘Front of House’ New York City restaurant horror story. Later, Jenn and Pam talk with Aaron Sherman and Gianfranco Verga about their wine, spirit, and beer website, <a href="http://www.sevenfifty.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SevenFifty</a>. Hear about the duo’s initial interest in wine, and how it brought them together to form a a digital mega-list of wines from a myriad of distributors and producers. Hear about their innovations in the realm of wine tasting, and how you can compile all of your tasting notes online. Later, Jenn and Pam are joined by Brian Block, manager at Socarrat. Hear how Brian has enjoyed the transition from behind the bar to the floor, as well as his distaste of recent pretentious hipster cocktail revivalists. Hear Brian discuss his ideas on designing cocktails to match restaurant personalities, and why frozen drinks need to make a comeback. This episode has been sponsored by <a href="http://www.hearstranch.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hearst Ranch</a>. <h2>“In Florence, we met a lot of friendly people who introduced us to what it meant to have wine as a serious part of the culture and part of the meal- the thing that brought all of us to wine and restaurants in the first place.” — Aaron Sherman on The Morning After</h2>

Episode 44: SevenFifty.com and Brian Block