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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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In The Last Pew

When the family of a longtime patient invited me to her funeral, I found myself wrestling with a question I never addressed in medical school.
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Before You Take That Alzheimer's Test, Ask This Question

New Alzheimer's blood tests are accurate, available, and increasingly advertised — but for healthy people, a positive result is rarely useful.
12 jul

Because We've Always Done It That Way

Standard medical practice isn't the same as proven medical practice — and the difference can be deadly.
5 jul

The Comfort Premium

It’s the same medicine. So why does the convenient version cost so much more?
28 jun

Solving One Problem, Creating Another

From a Pacific island overrun by rats to hospital wards battling superbugs, why our best intentions so often backfire.
21 jun

What's Your Pain Worth? The Ethics of Paying Research Subjects

Would you take $5,000 to be in a painful medical study? And should researchers even be allowed to ask?
12 jun

Why Is She Being Blamed for Her Cancer?

We'd never ask a breast cancer patient what she did to deserve it. So why do we ask her?
8 jun

Gorillas: The Canary in the Jungle

Veterinarians in Central Africa are bracing for an Ebola outbreak among gorillas. It might sound remote. It's not.

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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 .