Tremendous amount of exciting new data coming out of one of our nation's oldest palliative care services: Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) just celebrated a 20 year anniversary. Please see the links below to recent articles and posts, including new studies about early palliative care in bone marrow transplant and early stage GI cancers coming out of MGH. In today's podcast we interview Vicki Jackson , chief of the palliative care service at Massachusetts General Hospital, the service that provided the palliative care intervention in these trials. Vicki is known as one of the best palliative care providers in the world. She also happens to be refreshingly plain spoken. We talk about many topics, including: how palliative care in bone marrow transplant and GI malignancies is unique, palliative care "pearls" in these populations, what it's like going into a "new" territory for palliative care, and what's next at MGH. https://soundcloud.