Second Opinion

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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.
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  Cut and No Cure - When Doing Nothing Beats Going Under the Knife 10.05.2026 5min

  What if one of the most common surgeries performed in the world turned out to be no better than a fake one — and we kept doing it anyway?
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  Eight Legs, One Bite, Big Trouble 03.05.2026 4min

  There's a vaccine for your dog. There isn't one for you. And that's not an accident — it's a scandal.
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  Who Is Qualified to Fix Your Mind? 24.04.2026 4min

  Millions of Americans need mental health care and can't get it — so should we lower the bar on who gets to provide it?
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  Smarter Than Two Doctors: How AI Could Change Breast Cancer Screening 19.04.2026 4min

  If AI can outperform two radiologists reading your mammogram, why is it still sitting on the sidelines?
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  The Socialized Medicine We Already Have — And It Works 12.04.2026 5min

  We've spent decades arguing about whether government-run healthcare could ever work in America — but one system has been quietly proving it can. The answer might surprise you.
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  What Happened to Him? Why We Get Trauma—and Care—So Wrong 04.04.2026 5min

  Our healthcare system often punishes behavior it doesn’t understand—and trauma is at the center of that misunderstanding.
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  Cruel Irony of Medical Expertise 27.03.2026 5min

  If you've ever left a doctor's office nodding along and then lain awake at 3 am realizing you understood almost nothing — this might be for you.
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  Dyslexia, Shame, and the Myth of Intelligence 22.03.2026 5min

  The same children once labeled deficient are often highly capable adults — if they survive a system that misjudges them early. Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence, but everything to do with how badly we teach reading and judge those who struggle.