All Natural

Today on Possessed, we talk about our assumption that the natural is better than the artificial. But there's a lot of natural things that are pretty terrible--think cyanide, pain in childbirth, E. Coli--and there's a lot of non-natural things that are pretty wonderful--think glasses, surgery, breastpumps. How do we make sense of our enduring preference for the natural? Our guest is Dr. Heather Staples, a pediatric pulmonologist who serves on the executive committee of the South Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, teaches at the School of Medicine, and serves on an ethics board at a local hospital.