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 for our everyday lives.

Listen to playing God. Pushkin. I'm an only child and my mother grew up with four or five siblings and so I remember from a very young age my mother would always tell me that your friends will be your

family. Meet Catherine who. She was very worried about me growing up as an only

child and not having that sort of built-in friendship that she had growing up.

But Catherine's mom didn't need to be worried,

because Catherine had a knack for connecting with others.

And when she started college,

Catherine quickly got to know many of her fellow students.

Like it was one of those things

where you ran into people all the time just by virtue of being on campus and walking around the same places.

So when Catherine moved to DC to start her first job after college, working for the Atlantic magazine,

she assumed it would be just as easy to make friends in the office as it had been on campus, but it wasn't.

I felt really disillusioned with young adult life. I kind of felt like I had been tricked that young adult life was

promised in like pop culture and all these TV shows as this wonderful thing

you're like finding yourself you're in this new city you're starting to

forge your path and I just felt really

disappointed. Catherine was experiencing a feeling she hadn't known in college.

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