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.
, 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.
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.
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