Limboland

In 2014, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman with terminal brain cancer, moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of the death-with-dignity law. She later ended her life that same year. Today, physician aid-in-dying is legal in eight states and Washington D.C. What is a physician’s role in death, and can aid-in-dying be successfully instituted in the United States with our current healthcare system?

Every year, the pharmaceutical industry spends over 20 billion dollars on charming doctors. They do so with seemingly innocuous gifts — free food and beverages, drug samples, offering payments for speeches and hosting disease “education” sessions. How much are doctors really affected by this legal bribery?

From 1946 to 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted STD experiments in Guatemala on several vulnerable populations — including prisoners, soldiers, and psychiatric patients — without their consent. The truth of this study was not uncovered until 2010. How did this happen?

Coming Tuesday, October 6, Limboland is a new podcast that dives into the uncomfortable, murky, and sometimes ambiguous parts of medicine.