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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 min
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 min
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 min
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 min
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 min
31. maj

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 min
24. maj

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 min
15. maj

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.

5 min

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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 .