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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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The Comfort Premium

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

5 minit
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.

5 minit
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?

5 minit
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?

5 minit
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.

5 minit
31 Mei

The Power of a Passport and the Privilege to Leave

I packed my bag, crossed the border, and eventually flew home to safety. The health care workers I left behind had no such option.

5 minit
24 Mei

We Knew It Was Coming — We Just Didn't Care

From the Uganda-Congo border: a firsthand account of an Ebola outbreak, a failing response, and the political decisions that made it worse.

5 minit
15 Mei

A Ship, a Virus, Nine Countries. And We Weren't There. We Built It, And Then We Broke It.

America built the global health system that protects us all — and then walked away from it.

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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 .