Over the last few decades, we've adopted all kinds of new medical technologies, ventilators,

IVF, brain implants, and when bioethicists consider these innovations, they return to

the same questions.

Just because we can do something, does it mean we should, and who gets to make these

kinds of decisions?

Playing God is a new podcast about the complex decisions made in medicine and public health

and the implications they have throughout everyday lives.

Listen to Playing God.

Hi, I'm Phil Downeyhue.

And I'm Arlo Tarmus, and we're going on a series of double dates to find out what

makes a marriage last.

To meet Patricia Cornwell and Stacey Gruber, we only had to walk as far as the front door

of our apartment.

They had plans to be in Manhattan, so it saved us a trip to Boston.

Patricia, of course, is the world-famous crime novelist.

More than 30 years ago, she turned murder and forensics into the hottest ticket in

fiction.

Now it's everywhere.

Stacey, no slouch herself, is a neuroscience researcher at Harvard's McLean Hospital and

an associate professor of psychiatry.

She's got bright red hair, and she had Patricia's attention from the get-go.

I literally almost never went home after meeting Stacey.

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