It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel-and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. Lisa Sanders as she attempts to help patients with rare illnesses and searches for a diagnosis and cure using wisdom of the crowd methods. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis-and treatment-is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.” Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose.Ī twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. When the New York Times asked her in 2002 to write a column about the complexity of solving certain medical mysteries, she. “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”-Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalĪs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. Lisa Sanders Diagnoses the Reasons Your Condition Has No Label. Lisa Sanders, Author of the Diagnosis Column for The New York Times The Doctor as Detective (with Dr. Synopsis: A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column-now a Netflix original series Lisa Sanders The Limitations of Medical Knowledge - Dr.

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