New york times medical mysteries5/22/2023 ![]() Readers who enjoy dramatic stories of doctors fighting disease will get their fill, and they will also encounter thoughtful essays on how doctors think and go about their work, and how they might do it better. ![]() Sanders uses this case to explain how computers can help in diagnoses (Google is not bad, she says, but better programs exist). Another patient, frustrated at her doctor’s failure to diagnose her fever and rash, googles her symptoms and finds the correct answer. The author then ponders the neglect of the physical exam, by today’s physicians, enamored with high-tech tests that sometimes reveal less than a simple exam. An abdominal exam would have detected the patient’s obstructed, grossly swollen bladder. Batteries of tests are unrevealing, but he quickly recovers after a resident extracts two quarts of urine. A man arrives at the hospital, delirious, his kidneys failing. Unlike Berton Roueché in his books of medical puzzles, Sanders not only collects difficult cases, she reflects on what each means for both patient and struggling physician. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for the US health care system as the number of people needing medical care has exploded over a period of. ![]() ![]() In her first book, internist and New York TimesĬolumnist Sanders discusses how doctors deal with diagnostic dilemmas. ![]()
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