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KCRW's Second Opinion

Summary: An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Dr. Michael Wilkes is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Medical Education at UC Davis. He takes on the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries and raises the issues that people face head-on when making medical decisions.

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Podcasts:

 How Hard to Push? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What do we do when people won't help themselves?

 Conflict of Interest Rules for Drug Company Interactions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Does limiting contact between drug companies and doctors make a difference?

 Politics, Guns and Public Health | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Should doctors be involved in politics?

 Abortions, Pregnancies and Roe v. Wade | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Can we all agree on pregnancy prevention?

 Prescribing drugs never proven to work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Prescribing drugs never proven to work

 Drug prices are going through the roof! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Why have drug prices increased?

 Doctors' Hours | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Why must doctors work bankers' hours?

 Liberties versus Public Health | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When should the government step in to protect us?

 Disease Mongering | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Male menopause...

 Research on childhood illnesses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Can we better understand how children perceive research?

 New Hospital Discharge Rules | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Hospitals may be forced to work as part of a system...

 Stress | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The effect of stress on our health...

 The Impact of Still Births | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The loss can be devastating ?

 Intellectual Property Rights | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Do we really want to keep poor people from using our drugs?

 Tropical Diseases | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Unusual tropical diseases in the US...

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