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Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficu.
She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly Every illness--the diagnosis--revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying.
In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness.
And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood.
Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease.
Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis.
In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr.
A young woman lies dying in the ICU--bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent--and none of her doctors know what is killing her.
Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment--only to have their symptoms mysteriously return.
A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory--making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour.
Because, even today, a Diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer.
The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it--on some level--restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that Diagnosis comes attached to a cure.
When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, \'What is wrong with me?\' They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings.
Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected.
The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country.
Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column Diagnosis, the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.
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A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr.
Sanders takes readers bedside to witness the process of solving diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis.
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