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. A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. 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.

It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel-and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column-the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”-Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs 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. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, 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.' 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. 'Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.'-Atul Gawande, author ofĪs a Yale School of Medicine physician, theĪnd an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama Popular Diagnosis column-now a Netflix original series A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of

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