Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story (9780767922463): Lisa Sanders: Books
Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story (9780767922463): Lisa Sanders: Books
eye-opening look at the challenges of the diagnostic process; gives a patient great empathy for the doctor,
By Carol C. “ccjello” (Kansas City, MO USA) -
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What a fascinating, page-turner of a read! I haven’t finished the book yet, but I wanted to get my enthusiastic endorsement on file. The author, a journalist turned physician, takes us through the challenging process of diagnosis — how the medical team evaluates, tests, observes, collaborates — in order to pinpoint the cause of someone’s physical symptoms or illness.
Most of us (at least the older crowd) have been there — we don’t feel quite right but can’t quite figure out what’s wrong, what’s causing us to feel rotten. We look to the doctor for all of the answers. As the author points out, no physician can possibly know everything there is to know about all of the obsure diseases, and it is difficult for physicians not to be biased by the symptoms they are initially presented with. Physicians are often working with limited information, and they do the best with the information they have.
I recommend this book for anyone involved inthe diagnostic process — physicians, particularly internists — as well as patients. The book really underscores our obligations as patients to work in collaboration with our health care providers to give them all of the information they might need, even the stuff that is seemingly irrelevant to us, in order to make an accurate diagnosis. Great book — now I’m off to finish it (which I’ll probably do in a single sitting.)
Fantastic,
By M. Hyman “Artist at large” (Seattle, WA USA) -
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There are books where, from the first page, you just know you are going to like it. This is one of them. As a huge fan of the tv show House, I was excited to read a book by the author, who is a technical advisor to the show. She provides a mix of stories of the type portrayed in the show.. medical mysteries. But, unlike the fictional version, she discusses the science behind the diagnoses, and what goes wrong. So this book is in part a book about medical diagnosis, discussing various techniques that are used, and in part it is very much a critique of medical diagnosis, describing the loss of valuable tools with the current deemphasis on hands on examinations. She includes stories of triumphs, but more importantly, shows how many diagnoses went wrong, and suggests improvements.
Thus, this book is both about medical diagnoses, but it also raises important questions about medical practices that are of interest generally, but i believe would be of interest to and resonate with doctors as well.
The book is very well written. It is clear, concise, and personal.
It also gives a nice depth for how I will look at House when the new season begins. (Perhaps with more medicine and less drama, I hope).
My biggest complaint about the book? Sequel isn’t ready yet. Finished it in a day, and would like to read more.
Altogether, a great read. Get it.
A thrilling inside tour of medicine that non-M.D.s will love,too,
By B. C. (Norwell, MA) -
Every patient would love a look inside her physician’s head to glimpse that meticulous moment-to-moment process that yields a great–even life-saving–diagnosis. That’s exactly what EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY does. Bless Dr. Sanders for having the heart, wisdom and eloquence to lay open the M.D. brain for all of us nervous lay people who, at those moments of health crisis, can only pray we’ve picked a good doc.
It turns out that the things we patients secretly crave from our doctors–eye contact, focused conversation, LISTENING, the reassuring touch of the physician’s educated hands on our painful abdomens or dislocated shoulders–are also the most vital tools of a truly great diagnostician. Of course we’re grateful for medical technology, but as Dr. Sanders so brilliantly argues, these technical advancements work best when physicians’ own powers of observation–and yes, intuition–are also fully engaged.
The last chapter is a dramatic departure from the rest of the book. Here Dr. Sanders tells us a very personal diagnosis story, one involving the untimely death of her younger sister. The gift of such an intimate conclusion reminds the reader of the humane impulse that so clearly motivated its author on every preceding page.
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