Diagnosis
Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
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…
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August 13, 2019Lisa 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.