The link between teens, marijuana and depression
What is needed is to get at risk teens early help.
Episodes
Second Opinion
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 .
Episodes
Cutting the CDC budget
Should we have the right to know what attitudes the new CDC director holds?
The 'surprise' question
A good reminder to extend care.
A plant for that may just be the answer
Will people find it acceptable?
Risk factors for chronic opioid use
They aren't what you might think.
Blushing
The body’s reaction to an emotional trigger.
Drug promotion drives up health care costs
Sometimes the promotions are rather sneaky.
Does technology drive up health costs?
In three important ways it does.
Conscientious objectors in medicine
Who decides what looks nice?
Poverty as a risk factor for illness
The poor are stuck and need help getting out...
Drugs that don’t work
No choice about a flu medicine.
Pharmaceutical promotion to health providers
The bribes and gifts continue….
Benefits of medical marijuana
For too long our heads have been in the sand...
FDA permits sales of genetic tests to the public
When does the public need medical advice and when does it not?
Prostate cancer screening recommendations
There is still no clear answer and the decision is not easy
Learning from others
If we listen there is lots we can learn from those around us.
Do we need more doctors?
A tough question, but perhaps it's the wrong question to ask.
Bullying patients to get what we want
What we are looking for is a partnership.
Our judgmental side
It can change – but only with effort and will.
The doubtful case of walking pneumonia
Unnecessary antibiotics...
The use of animals in medicine
It is long past time to end this practice.
The making of a healthy nation
Let's at least agree on how we measure our health.
Complaining
Complaints are far more than they seem.
Right care is good care
Why do we overuse care that offers no benefit?
The basis of stigma
What can we learn about how to be more inclusive?
We need to stop talking
Listening is powerful medicine.
Vitamins and supplements
Why do more than half of Americans take these products?
ACA: A policy that benefits us all
Going, going, GONE!
Lying in medicine, Part 2
Patients deceive their doctors…but doctors also deceive their patients.
Telling the truth in medicine
What happens when patients fib to their doctor?