Limboland

Yibing Zhang
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Autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. What happens when these principles of medical ethics go awry? Join almost-doctor, Yibing Zhang, on a journey into the uncomfortable, murky, and sometimes ambiguous parts of medicine.

Episodes

  1. Autonomy in Death

    10/27/2020

    Autonomy in Death

    In 2014, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman with terminal brain cancer, moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of the death-with-dignity law. She later ended her life that same year. Today, physician aid-in-dying is legal in eight states and Washington D.C. What is a physician’s role in death, and can aid-in-dying be successfully instituted in the United States with our current healthcare system?

    34 min
  2. Legal Bribery

    10/13/2020

    Legal Bribery

    Every year, the pharmaceutical industry spends over 20 billion dollars on charming doctors. They do so with seemingly innocuous gifts — free food and beverages, drug samples, offering payments for speeches and hosting disease “education” sessions. How much are doctors really affected by this legal bribery?

    18 min
  3. Gonorrhea Toothpicks

    10/06/2020

    Gonorrhea Toothpicks

    From 1946 to 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted STD experiments in Guatemala on several vulnerable populations — including prisoners, soldiers, and psychiatric patients — without their consent. The truth of this study was not uncovered until 2010. How did this happen?

    26 min
  4. Introducing: Limboland

    09/30/2020

    Introducing: Limboland

    Coming Tuesday, October 6, Limboland is a new podcast that dives into the uncomfortable, murky, and sometimes ambiguous parts of medicine.

    1 min
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Autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. What happens when these principles of medical ethics go awry? Join almost-doctor, Yibing Zhang, on a journey into the uncomfortable, murky, and sometimes ambiguous parts of medicine.

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  • Creator
    Yibing Zhang
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Limboland