How do doctors figure out what is wrong with a patient? While some diagnoses are straightforward, others can be positively puzzling. Small details matter when the doctor has to act like Sherlock Holmes. Both the patient’s story for the doctor and the doctor’s story for the patient about what’s wrong make a difference for diagnosis, treatment and healing.
Guest: Lisa Sanders, MD, is Clinical Instructor in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She writes the Diagnosis column for The New York Times Magazine. Her book is: Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis.
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