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Follow the Money: What Super Bowl Health Ads Really Sell
08/2/2026 | 5 mins.
Super Bowl medical ads use celebrity endorsements and fear tactics to promote disease screening - not primarily for public health, but to expand the patient pool for new, expensive treatments.
When Back Pain Strikes: Why Surgery Isn't Always the Answer
01/2/2026 | 4 mins.
Most back pain doesn't require surgery—so why are we spending two billion dollars over a three-year period on it?
The Blue Blood That Saves Lives — But At What Cost?
25/1/2026 | 5 mins.
Every medical injection you've ever received was safety-tested using the blue blood of a 450-million-year-old creature — and we're finally questioning whether that's worth their survival.
The Antidepressant Trap: The Story We Weren’t Told
18/1/2026 | 5 mins.
My patient Paul has been trying to stop his antidepressants for months, and what's keeping him trapped reveals a truth the medical community has been slow to acknowledge.
When Politics Replaces Science, Public Health Pays the Price
11/1/2026 | 4 mins.
The flu is surging, vaccine recommendations just got gutted, and somehow we're being told to trust butter over science—here's why you should be worried.

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An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Sign up to receive the Second Opinion topics in newsletter form at kcrw.com/newsletters .

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