Reddit reviews Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

This book does a great job explaining some of the reasons why clinicians fall short in their accuracy and speed of diagnoses. I'm sure there are a number of doctors who knowingly brush patients complaints to the side when the answer doesn't jump out to them, but the are a whole bunch more of doctors (particularly GP's) who wish they could spend more time mulling over each unexplained symptom their patients bring to them.

The book does a better job explaining the related issues and is a really interesting source of medical stories for those interested (in fact, it's written by one of the doctors who consulted for the production of House MD.) The best thing a concerned patient can do is to be persistent and not be afraid to find a new practitioner/specialist if/when the first one falls short!

There is a nice account of a blind physician in the book Every Patient Tells a Story, by Lisa Sanders. He still had some vision during medical school, but eventually went into rehabilitative medicine, rheumatology I think, because it had a lot to do with physical aspects he could feel.

As a bonus, she's a consultant for the television show House.

Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders MD is excellent.

It's certainly not as heady as anything by Gawande, a little pop, but I guess that's to be expected from a NY Times columnist and the HOUSE MD technical advisor. Very enjoyable.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767922476

Thats it! Thank you.

The book is called "Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis"
By Dr. Lisa Sanders as in the article you linked. Much appreciated.
If you solve the mystery in her articles, you win a signed copy of the book :).
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Patient-Tells-Story-Mysteries/dp/0767922476

These are a few that I really liked:

Lisa Sanders, Every Patient Tells a Story

Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself