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Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

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Product Description A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the  New York Times bestselling author of  Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama  House, M.D., 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.  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.” 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, Diagnosis 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. Review “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller. . . . But what sets her apart is her Holmes-like eye for the clues—and her un-Holmes-like compassion for those who suffer.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal About the Author Lisa Sanders, M.D., is an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. She writes the monthly column Diagnosis for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, and served as a technical advisor on Fox TV's House, M.D. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Just a Fever “I think I’m losing this battle,” the fifty-­seven-­year-­old man told his wife one Saturday night nearly a year ago. While she’d been at the theater—­they’d bought the tickets weeks earlier—­he’d had to crawl up the stairs on his hands and knees to get back to bed. Terrible bone-­shaking chills tore through him, despite the thick layer of blankets. The shivering was followed by sudden blasts of internal heat and drenching sweats that made him kick off the covers, only to have to haul them back up as the cycle repeated itself. You really need to go back to the ER, his wife told him. The frustration and worry were clear in her voice. He’d already been to the emergency room three times. They’d given him some intravenous fluids and sent him home with the diagnosis of a viral syndrome. He would start to feel better soon, he was told each time. But he hadn’t. This all began nine days before. That first day he called in sick to his job as a physical therapist. He felt feverish, as though he might have the flu. He would drink plenty of fluids and take it easy and go back to work the next day. But the next day he felt even worse. That’s when the fevers and chills really kicked in. He alternated between acetaminophen and ibuprofen, but the fever never let up. He started sleeping in the guest room because the sweats soaked the sheets and the chills shook the bed, waking his wife. After four days of this he made his first visit to the Yale New Haven Hospital emergency room. He was already being treated for a different infection. Three weeks earlier he’d developed a red swollen elbow