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Second Opinion

KCRW

An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Sign up to receive the Second Opinion topics in newsletter form at kcrw.com/newsletters .

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1 013 épisodes

  1. Who Will Take Care of Rusty? 4:56
  2. Suicide Prevention: The Power of Staying Connected 4:42
  3. Holy Grail, Hollow Promise 4:59
  4. When Health Care Becomes a Ballot Battle: Three Propositions, Three Flawed Ideas 5:00
  5. The Comment In The Operating Room 5:00
  6. Want Your Doctor to Write Back? 5:00
  7. No Room In The Hospital 5:00
  8. When Good Enough Is Never Good Enough 5:00
  9. The Pressure to Succeed 4:41
  10. Would You Get Sick for Science? 4:55
  11. Maybe We've Been Fighting the Wrong Enemy 5:00
  12. Mosquitoes Are Winning 5:00
  13. The Missing Ingredient in Fighting Ebola 4:54
  14. The Choice Dementia Takes Away 5:00
  15. Evolution Never Saw this Coming 4:59
  16. In The Last Pew 4:25
  17. Before You Take That Alzheimer's Test, Ask This Question 5:00
  18. Because We've Always Done It That Way 5:08
  19. The Comfort Premium 4:49
  20. Solving One Problem, Creating Another 4:59
  21. What's Your Pain Worth? The Ethics of Paying Research Subjects 5:00
  22. Why Is She Being Blamed for Her Cancer? 4:48
  23. Gorillas: The Canary in the Jungle 4:59
  24. The Power of a Passport and the Privilege to Leave 5:00
  25. We Knew It Was Coming — We Just Didn't Care 4:59
  26. A Ship, a Virus, Nine Countries. And We Weren't There. We Built It, And Then We Broke It. 5:00
  27. Cut and No Cure - When Doing Nothing Beats Going Under the Knife 5:00
  28. Eight Legs, One Bite, Big Trouble 4:59
  29. Who Is Qualified to Fix Your Mind? 4:59
  30. Smarter Than Two Doctors: How AI Could Change Breast Cancer Screening 4:31
  31. The Socialized Medicine We Already Have — And It Works 5:00
  32. What Happened to Him? Why We Get Trauma—and Care—So Wrong 5:00
  33. Cruel Irony of Medical Expertise 5:00
  34. Dyslexia, Shame, and the Myth of Intelligence 5:00
  35. Why Competition Doesn't Work in Medicine — And Can Actually Make Things Worse 5:00
  36. Why Nurses May Be a Key to Fixing American Healthcare 5:00
  37. TrumpRx: What the President Didn’t Tell You 5:00
  38. The Boring Secret to Living Longer 5:00
  39. Why Dying Needs More Than Medicine 4:48
  40. Follow the Money: What Super Bowl Health Ads Really Sell 5:00
  41. When Back Pain Strikes: Why Surgery Isn't Always the Answer 4:33
  42. The Blue Blood That Saves Lives — But At What Cost? 5:00
  43. The Antidepressant Trap: The Story We Weren’t Told 5:00
  44. When Politics Replaces Science, Public Health Pays the Price 4:59
  45. What My Patients Taught Me About Gratitude 5:00
  46. Blessed or Broken? Rethinking Mental Health Across Cultures 4:48
  47. Why the President's 'Routine' MRI Is Bad Medicine 5:00
  48. Where Goat Births and Human Births Meet 5:00
  49. Not That Kind of Doctor 5:00
  50. Rethinking the Pap Smear 5:00