Diagnosis

<b>A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries featuring the best of <i>The New York Times Magazine's </i>popular Diagnosis column&#151;now a Netflix original series</b><br><br><b>&#147;Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.&#148;&#151;Atul Gawande author of&#160;<i>Being Mortal</i></b><br><br>As a Yale School of Medicine physician the&#160;<i>New York Times&#160;</i>bestselling author of&#160;<i>Every Patient Tells a Story&#160;</i>and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama&#160;<i>House M.D.&#160;</i>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.&#160;<br><br>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 &#147;slamming a door inside his head.&#148;<br><br>In each of these cases the path to diagnosis&#151;and treatment&#151;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 <i>Diagnosis</i> puts readers in the doctor&#146;s place. It lets them see what doctors see feel the uncertainty they feel&#151;and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.