Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

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 columnâ€”now a Netflix original series

â€œLisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.â€â€”Atul Gawande, author ofÂ Being Mortal

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, theÂ New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ Every Patient Tells a Story,Â and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV dramaÂ House, M.D.,Â 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.Â

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 â€œslamming a door inside his head.â€

In each of these cases, the path to diagnosisâ€”and treatmentâ€”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 doctorâ€™s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feelâ€”and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
Color Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate 2019-08-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780593136638

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
Color	Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate	2019-08-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780593136638

Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

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