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KCRW's Second Opinion show

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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 Changed by Ebola | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

It isn?t only the treatment of disease?

 Changes Needed in How We Train Doctors | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A new IOM report questions existing approaches.

 Competition in the Market Place | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Robots in medicine...

 Summer Dehydration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Turn to water!

 Pills vs Self Confidence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When to prescribe a pill that really isn?t needed...

 Treatment for Clogged Ears | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

It all depends on what you believe...

 Treatment for Clogged Ears | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

It all depends on what you believe...

 How Can We Make Good Decisions with Poor Information? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

For healthy people, we just don't need our vitamin D levels checked...

 Less May Be More and Older May Be Better | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Much of what we do to sick people is poorly studied...

 Playing Nicely in the Sandbox | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Can two types of doctors agree to play together?

 Stemming the Increase in Gun Violence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Steps we can take toward prevention

 Collecting Gone Array | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When does a behavior become a disease?

 Encouraging People to Be Healthy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Should we all chip in to pay people to stay healthy?

 Poor Grades for Sex Education | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

We can certainly do better...

 What's in Common Medications? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Vegans beware...

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