Second Opinion – Details, episodes & analysis

Digital communications are playing a larger role in health care, but transparency and equity are being forgotten.

Being a surrogate decision-maker for someone at the end of life isn’t easy, but there are steps you can take to ease the burden. 

As Congress debates cuts to Medicaid (the health insurance program for the poor and disabled) in order to deliver a tax cut to the wealthy, it risks a cascade of negative effects on our entire health care system.

We spend lots of time figuring out at what age to start screening for cancer. But when do we stop screening?

You can easily order genetic tests online, but should you?

While the death rate for prostate cancer has fallen over the past two decades, little of this is related to routine testing of older men. 

Simply providing information such as clear warning labels on restaurant menus can reduce added sugar consumption.  

Can artificial intelligence, based on machine learning, predict more accurately the care a loved one would want at the end of life compared to next of kin?

The thinking goes that testing before elective surgery can reduce risks and complications.  But, it turns out it may do the opposite.

Touch during a visit to the doctor has many benefits, but it can also negatively impact the provider-patient relationship.