KCRW

Second Opinion

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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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KCRW

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Latest episode

Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Stopping CPR 04.10.2015

What is easy to start can be far more difficult to stop.

Does Greed Know No Limits? 27.09.2015

Drug prices with no caps...

The Power of Words 20.09.2015

Changing the goals in emergency medicine...

A Half-Baked Pie 13.09.2015

Why tease us with punch lines we can’t understand?

There's a Great Deal of Meaning in a Name 06.09.2015

Change does not come easily....

An Insider's Look at Breast Cancer Care 30.08.2015

A perspective from Dr. Susan Love...

Again We Find More Is Not Better 23.08.2015

What good can come of new medical evidence?

Are We Serious about Longer Working Hours? 16.08.2015

It seems as if this is not in anyone's best interest.

Mental Health Is Just Not the Same 09.08.2015

The mental health parity law is just not working.

Antibiotic Overuse 02.08.2015

Doctors and patients can’t seem to get this right

Happy Birthday Medicare 26.07.2015

We've come a long way.

A Disease with No Cause 19.07.2015

Chronic kidney disease in rice farmers...

Two Health Systems That Co-exist 12.07.2015

Ayurvedic Medicine and its new sibling “western medicine”...

TB in Elephants 05.07.2015

Disease spread from humans to animals.

Culture and Gender in Sri Lanka 28.06.2015

How do you change long held beliefs?

Animal: Human Conflict 21.06.2015

We're all from the same family...

Where Do They Get These FDA Advisory Committees? 14.06.2015

Recommendations to approve two drugs that are not ready for prime time.

On the Ground in Nepal 07.06.2015

We need to proceed with care.

Medico-voluntourism 31.05.2015

Sometime our help isn't really help.

One Health – New Evidence on the Environment – Body Link 24.05.2015

It turns out air pollution impacts far more than our lungs.

Use of Placebos in Africa 17.05.2015

Is deception ok when it helps the patient?

Trade Agreements and Tobacco Products 10.05.2015

What are our global priorities? 

How Did Evolution Provide for the Human-Dog Bond? 03.05.2015

The biology of bonding.

How Do We Tell if Your Doctor Is Up to Date? 26.04.2015

Something is amiss in how we re-certify doctors.

Is Government's Job to Protect Kids or Business? 19.04.2015

It is clear why one in three kids is overweight.

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