Second Opinion

Osad

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  No Room In The Hospital 27.09.2026 5min

  It's not the sniffles clogging our ERs. It's a hospital system with nowhere left to put people.
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  When Good Enough Is Never Good Enough 20.09.2026 5min

  An A-minus isn't a crisis. But for some high achievers, it can feel like one. When does striving for excellence become something harmful?
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  The Pressure to Succeed 13.09.2026 4min

  American teens are anxious, exhausted, and getting too little sleep. Are phones really the whole problem—or should we also be looking at our culture of achievement?
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  Would You Get Sick for Science? 06.09.2026 4min

  They were conscientious objectors who refused to fight in World War II. So they found another way to serve: they offered their own bodies for dangerous medical experiments.
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  Maybe We've Been Fighting the Wrong Enemy 30.08.2026 5min

  For 100 years we've been trying to kill mosquitoes. What if the real problem was us?
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  Mosquitoes Are Winning 23.08.2026 5min

  We've spent decades trying to kill mosquitoes. So why do they seem to be getting better at living with us?
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  The Missing Ingredient in Fighting Ebola 16.08.2026 4min

  You can bring doctors, laboratories, and protective equipment to an Ebola outbreak. But you can't ship trust in a box.
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  The Choice Dementia Takes Away 09.08.2026 5min

  Who should make the final decision about your death?  You, your family, your doctor...or a disease that slowly takes away your mind?
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  Evolution Never Saw this Coming 02.08.2026 4min

  Your body was built for a world that no longer exists — and that mismatch might be making you sick.  
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  In The Last Pew 26.07.2026 4min

  When the family of a longtime patient invited me to her funeral, I found myself wrestling with a question I never addressed in medical school.
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  Before You Take That Alzheimer's Test, Ask This Question 19.07.2026 5min

  New Alzheimer's blood tests are accurate, available, and increasingly advertised — but for healthy people, a positive result is rarely useful.
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  Because We've Always Done It That Way 12.07.2026 5min

  Standard medical practice isn't the same as proven medical practice — and the difference can be deadly.  
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  The Comfort Premium 05.07.2026 4min

  It’s the same medicine. So why does the convenient version cost so much more?
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  Solving One Problem, Creating Another 28.06.2026 4min

  From a Pacific island overrun by rats to hospital wards battling superbugs, why our best intentions so often backfire.
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  What's Your Pain Worth? The Ethics of Paying Research Subjects 21.06.2026 5min

  Would you take $5,000 to be in a painful medical study? And should researchers even be allowed to ask?
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  Why Is She Being Blamed for Her Cancer? 12.06.2026 4min

  We'd never ask a breast cancer patient what she did to deserve it. So why do we ask her?
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  Gorillas: The Canary in the Jungle 08.06.2026 4min

  Veterinarians in Central Africa are bracing for an Ebola outbreak among gorillas. It might sound remote. It's not.
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  The Power of a Passport and the Privilege to Leave 31.05.2026 5min

  I packed my bag, crossed the border, and eventually flew home to safety. The health care workers I left behind had no such option. 
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  We Knew It Was Coming — We Just Didn't Care 24.05.2026 4min

  From the Uganda-Congo border: a firsthand account of an Ebola outbreak, a failing response, and the political decisions that made it worse.
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  A Ship, a Virus, Nine Countries. And We Weren't There. We Built It, And Then We Broke It. 15.05.2026 5min

  America built the global health system that protects us all — and then walked away from it.