Second Opinion

By KCRWHealth & Fitness

Second Opinion episodes

May 01, 2011 Doctors' Data and the Supreme Court
Why would anyone care about what drugs I prescribe?
5 min
April 24, 2011 Nurse Midwives
With so few midwives, are we missing an opportunity?
4 min
April 17, 2011 Music and Medicine
What are the similarities between an expert musician and an expert physician?
5 min
April 10, 2011 An Ounce of Prevention May Still be Too Much
Preventive approaches may not be all they are promoted to be
4 min
April 03, 2011 Cat Scans Also Cause Radiation
For us the great health danger from radiation is from unnecessary tests.
4 min
March 27, 2011 Health Problems from Nuclear Exposure
What lessons can we learn (again) from Fukukshima?
4 min
March 20, 2011 Hospital Discharge, Part II
What are the options when it’s time to leave the hospital? … (Click on more for key questions to ask the doctor, social worker or care manager when discussion nursing home care, as well as understand its staffing, philosophy and user friendliness.)
4 min
March 13, 2011 Hospital Discharge, Part I
Sorry to be rude, but it’s time for you to go home… (Click on more for key questions to ask the doctor, social worker or care manager when discussion nursing home care, as well as understand its staffing, philosophy and user friendliness.)
4 min
March 06, 2011 Race and Medicine
How we use race in medicine can lead to assumptions that are wrong...
4 min
February 27, 2011 An Infection We Often Don't Think about in the Elderly
Why would an elderly woman develop fever, low white blood cells and stomach pains?
4 min

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