<![CDATA[Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis]]>

false <![CDATA[Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis]]> 6691125 2 A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. 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. 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. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer." A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory–making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment–only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU–bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent–and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. 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. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. 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. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives. From the Hardcover edition. 6886566 31 7 2009 Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis total:66|5:11|4:35|3:17|2:3|1:0| 66 252 194 34 3 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:16:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:28:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 10:41:13 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 10:41:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 13:56:55 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 14:03:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 04 05:59:16 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 06:05:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 06:10:08 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 13:02:49 -0700 2009
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Books like this one fascinate me. I'm struck by the way doctors work on people's bodies usin...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 16 17:08:44 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 08:13:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 16:44:15 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 12:17:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 06:43:32 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 06:45:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 08:11:56 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 08:14:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 16:46:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:43:24 -0700 2009
I really enjoyed this book, even though it wasn't quite what I expected. I definitely thought it would just be a bunch of the medical mysteries, but instead the book c...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 20:54:49 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:43:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:03:18 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:08:37 -0800 2009 New York Times Sunday Magazine, I was expecting a bit more of the case study and detective aspect, ala Berton Rouchet. Sometimes she...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:46:05 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:46:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:15:27 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 17:50:26 -0700 2009 She uses many cases to demonstrate. Diagnoses our health system!!]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 17:24:20 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 17:25:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:20:59 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:23:06 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 14:11:51 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 05:04:33 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:48:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 14:03:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 07:01:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 09:37:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 15:33:02 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 04:01:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6691125