Jonathan Han, "Serious Side Effects"
A doctor works on--and worries about--a way to care for needy patients who use free drug samples from pharmaceutical companies.

Audio posting:[September 25, 2009]; Originally published in March/April 2009 Health Affairs.
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Veneta Masson, "Luck Of The Dying"
A nurse witnesses her mother's month-long dying process and ponders its lesson.

Audio posting:[October 15, 2009]; Originally published in May/Junel 2005 Health Affairs.
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Melinda Morton, "Buying Lunch...And What Else?"
A medical student who believes that free lunches and free drug samples provided by the pharmaceutical industry are far from free finds her "no-free-lunch" resolve being tested.

Audio posting:[October 14, 2009]; Originally published in March/April 2009 Health Affairs.
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Phyllis Richman, "Shuffling In Grandmother's Footsteps"
Two generations later, a cure for Parkinson's disease is still said to be "probably ten years away."

Audio posting:[September 25, 2009]; Originally published in September/October 2009 Health Affairs.
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Eric Frederick Trump, "Love In The Time Of Organ Transplants"
When post-transplant medication costs more than $1,000 a month, how much of a girlfriend's appeal might be because she comes from a country that provides universal health care?

Audio posting:[September 25, 2009]; Originally published in January/February 2009 Health Affairs.
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