{"title":"Lisa Sanders","description":"Lisa Sanders, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinician educator in Yale's Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency program. Dr. Sanders writes the popular \"Diagnosis\" column, which appears monthly in The New York Times Magazine.","products":[{"product_id":"every-patient-tells-a-story-medical-mysteries-and-the-art-of-diagnosis-paperback","title":"Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003ecolumn \"Diagnosis,\" the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series \u003ci\u003eHouse, M.D.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEvery Patient Tells a Story\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEvery Patient Tells a Story\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376776052959,"sku":"9780767922470","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TbI1T9d93S9780767922470.webp?v=1789225307"},{"product_id":"diagnosis-solving-the-most-baffling-medical-mysteries-paperback","title":"Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine's \u003c\/i\u003epopular Diagnosis column--now a Netflix original series\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.\"--Atul Gawande, author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Patient Tells a Story, \u003c\/i\u003eand an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama \u003ci\u003eHouse, M.D., \u003c\/i\u003eLisa 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eDiagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51386460930271,"sku":"9780593136638","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1EsA7h5W969780593136638.webp?v=1789358442"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lisa-sanders.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}