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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 .
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Hospital Rankings aren't all they're cracked up to be
Why not use real evidence that matters to us, and would drive toward higher quality?
Stigmatized Language
Sticks and Stone can break our bones and words can really hurt us!
Disease mongering and hypertension
How a disease is defined can have important public health implications, but it can also lead to benefits for drug companies and medical specialists.
What’s wrong with free medical school?
In exchange for free medical school students should be required to offer some public service.
Preparing for the inevitable oil spill
Developing nations are often placed in a difficult position balancing protecting health and the environment with looking for products to sell for large profits.
Mosquitos remain the most common inspect spreading serious disease around the globe
Researchers in Tanzania are working with researchers in California on ways to reduce their breeding and biting.
The world's garbage is one health problem
In Tanzania the garbage from all over collects and is a huge health problem.
A resurgence of world hunger
Climate change is increasing the stress on farmers who increasingly overwhelmed.
Confusion around mental illness
Diagnosis can often be a challenge.
A common sense solution to the opioid crisis
What’s needed is effective treatment, access to care, and prevention!
A neglected tropical disease
The shortage of snakebite venom.
The science of the nudge
Is the nudge an example of libertarian paternalism or subliminal mind-bending?
The link between weight and guilt
The feelings of guilt are complex and seemingly tied to our perceptions of weight.
Too much news of suicide
Why are numbers increasing and what does it tell us about our society?
Impaired physicians are dangerous at work
We need to rethink what “exposure” to drugs means and whether health care professionals should be held to a different standard than other citizens.
Is basic life sustaining healthcare a right or a privilege?
What happens when a undocumented immigrant needs kidney dialysis?
Ebola returns and it deserves our attention
In our interconnected world their problems today could be our problems tomorrow.
The oversized problem of arthritis
This is the poster child for how we can use evidence-based practice to improve outcomes.
Striking in health care
Deciding to strike is always difficult, but there is an added twist in health care.
A tale of two extremes
Trying to meet patient expectations is an art and we sometimes miss the mark.
When journalists get it wrong
Reporting failure often results from neglecting to look under the rocks and ask the tough questions.
It's time to start to change some of the silly rules in health care
Everyone’s opinions count, but leaders need to be motivated to change the status quo
Sex trafficking
A group of people being missed by health professionals.
Out of hospital cardiac arrest
We could be doing much better – but it takes a village
Early teenage drinking
An early start to any type of substance abuse can often be a warning sign.
White coats against gun violence
Millennials are our reason for hope.
The health of the world's adolescents
Intervening to improve the health of this vulnerable population will have big payoffs as they transition to becoming tomorrow’s adults.
Limitations of antidepressant medications
An important illness with several options for treatment.
How do we get the doctors we need?
Requiring a year or two of community service.