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Diagnosis

Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

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Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders
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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. Physical Illness & Disease Science Sociology Medical School

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“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
Fascinating Medical Cases • Varied Diagnostic Mysteries • Correct Pronunciations • Educational Insights • Personal Edge

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Fascinating, fast paced, addicting!I couldn't stop listening. It made a two hour drive seem like 30 minutes!

Wonderful

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Outstanding material, extremely interesting & great narration - the narrator pronounced everything correctly & added more of a “personal” edge to the stories - very well done!!

Excellent Material, Great Narration!!

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Dr. Sanders used material from her NY Times Magazine for this book. Ailments ranged from nearly deadly consequences from common ailments (gout, enlarged prostate) to typhus, allergic reactions, autoimmune disease, and infections. In doing so, Dr. Sanders emphasizes the need for an internist or family doctor who knows you well instead of relying on ER docs or specialists. She also warns against relying on expensive imaging instead of a thorough history and exam.

Excellent production; I listened twice and took notes

Solving the medical puzzle

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Incredible stories. Medical mysteries. Entertaining presentation. Highlights the human condition. Lisa Sanders has a new fan. Well done !!! Can’t wait for volume 2. Don’t miss the related series on Netflix.

Hard to put down

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I liked the fact that she spoke to me as a person despite my hardships as a stroke victim.

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