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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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1,012 episodes

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