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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Latest episode

Oct 18, 2026

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Episodes

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.

More on Hepatitis C 12.04.2015

It's expensive, but does it work?

Why We Don’t Tip the Doctor 05.04.2015

An important cultural “no-no”...

Making Assumptions about Mental Illness 29.03.2015

There is no easy way to screen so we need to rely on trust.

A New Treatments for Hepatitis C 22.03.2015

Why are we paying twice for this ultra-expensive drug?

Violence in China 15.03.2015

When patients and doctors are not on the same page...

Prostate Cancer Screening Revisited 08.03.2015

No change in recommendation needed.

Sex Education a Changin' 01.03.2015

And the web seems to be the great equalizer...

Information Is Everything 22.02.2015

If only we knew more about costs…

Drinking Alcohol for Health 15.02.2015

It isn't very good news...

A Faulty Diagnosis 08.02.2015

It's often not what we first suspect...

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