The Story Collider

This week, we present two stories of medical crises, from New York in the 1980s to the present-day opioid epidemic.Part 1: During his residency training, pediatrician Ken Haller comes across a disturbing X-ray.Part 2: Neuroscientist Maureen Boyle's relationship with her sister, who struggles with drug addiction, becomes even more complicated when she begins working on drug policy.Episode transcript at http://www.storycollider.org/2017/8/4/epidemic-stories-of-medical-crises_______________________________Ken Haller is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. He is President of the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves on the boards of the Missouri Foundation for Health and the Gateway Media Literacy Project. He has also served as President of the St. Louis Pediatric Society; PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBT civil rights organization’ and GLMA, the national organization of LGBT health care professionals. He i