![]() What got me into the book was an incorrect diagnosis from a doctor that I made instantly. 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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