“Much of the education doctors get in their four years of medical school and subsequent years of apprenticeship training is focused on teaching this skill of identifying and shaping those aspects of a patient’s life and symptoms, exams and investigations… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“The basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry are linked to a patient at the bedside through very specific stories that doctors learn and eventually create. These stories, what researchers now call illness scripts, contain key characteristics of a disease to form an iconic version, an idealized model of that particular disease. … It is the story that every… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“But then there are other cases… Cases in which the narrative of disease strays off the expected path, where the usual suspects all seem to have alibis, and the diagnosis is elusive. For these, the doctor must don her deerstalker cap and unravel the mystery. It is in these instances where medicine can rise once again to the level of… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine. — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“If a doctor has worked through the problem well, there’s a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“Much of the education doctors get in their four years of medical school and subsequent years of apprenticeship training is focused on teaching this… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
