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--now a Netflix original series</b> <p/><b>Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.--Atul Gawande author of <i>Being Mortal</i></b> <p/>As a Yale School of Medicine physician the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Every Patient Tells a Story </i>and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama <i>House M.D. </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. <p/>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 slamming a door inside his head. <p/>In each of these cases the path to diagnosis--and treatment--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's place. It lets them see what doctors see feel the uncertainty they feel--and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.