Diagnosis, Lisa Sanders
Diagnosis, Lisa Sanders
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Diagnosis
Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

Author: Lisa Sanders

Narrator: Lisa Sanders

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Medical


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 is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

As 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. 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. 

A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. 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.”

In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis—and treatment—is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel—and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.

About The Author

Lisa Sanders, MD, is an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, writes the monthly column "Diagnosis" for the New York Times Magazine and served as a technical advisor on Fox TV’s House. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shreya on April 18, 2022

If someone, who is thinking of pursuing a career in medicine, reads this book, they may find it quite useful, or at least thought provoking as this book is all about the importance of listening to the patient without any hurry or too much interruption (even I prefer a doctor who allows me to finish......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 17, 2018

If you like the author's column in the New York Times Magazine, you will like this book. It features well-written stories of so-called "medical mysteries." My problem is this frame of the "mystery" which makes it seem like these are very tough diagnoses and so the patients are just unlucky to have t......more

Goodreads review by Hasnat on June 22, 2020

Several years ago when I was an Intern, I was chit-chatting with Dr. Sambita Chakravarty in the Pediatrics duty doctors' room. A bearded-man in a knee long panjabi with his wife peeked through the door. The wife had their son on her lap. He was Jamal. 8 years. The man had an anxious face- definitely......more


Quotes

“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller. . . . But what sets her apart is her Holmes-like eye for the clues—and her un-Holmes-like compassion for those who suffer.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal