Sick

Sick is an investigative podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy.

The first season explored the complications of fertility medicine, one Indiana doctor’s abuse of power, and the generations of lives he affected.

The second season looks at prisons — places that are meant to keep people healthy, but built to punish them.

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Sick is made possible in part by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, a private company funded by the American people.

Season 2

Not Sentenced For That

November 23, 2021

Indiana made the drastic decision to privatize health care in its prisons. It was supposed...

Zero Tolerance

November 16, 2021

Correctional officers are supposed to keep people in prison safe. But they can be the worst...

Helpless

November 9, 2021

This week, we explore the system’s effort to keep people inside from killing themselves:...

A Righteous Case

November 2, 2021

How do you get justice when something has gone wrong behind bars?

Screaming in the Shower

October 29, 2021

We start Season 2 with the story of 19-year-old Princola Shields. What went wrong with her...

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Season 1

Idiot's Guide

December 3, 2019

For the families connected to Donald Cline, this is a story with no end in sight.

Right In His Own Eyes

November 26, 2019

Clines deception goes deeper than replacing anonymous donor sperm. But bringing him to justice...

Why Would We Stop Now?

November 19, 2019

Heather Woock navigates modern fertility treatment. Could what Cline did happen today?

Sparingly

November 12, 2019

Donald Cline explains himself.

Lone Ranger

November 5, 2019

Donald Cline still doesn't come clean at a face-to-face meeting with the siblings, which leads...

A Dog Person

October 29, 2019

What kind of doctor uses his own sperm to impregnate his patients?

He's A Doctor - Why Would He Lie?

October 22, 2019

Jacoba Ballard knew she was donor conceived, so she wanted to see if she had any half siblings....

50% Different

October 15, 2019

The first season of Sick starts with the story of a mother and son, a generation apart, who...