![]() ![]() Delayed Diagnosis: Women With Endometriosis Don’t Get One for Ages ![]() There’s a triumph to it that’s like solving a puzzle, but here it has to do with a person’s health and life,” she says. “The pleasure that you get from nailing a tough diagnosis is fantastic. Plus, to have your condition taken seriously by other people - to get to play the “sick role,” as she puts it - the condition generally needs a name.ĭoctors like Sanders want nothing more than to give one. Even when no treatment is available, people are comforted by understanding what’s wrong with them. Then you can know the right treatment approach and have an idea of the prognosis,” she says. “It’s important for everyone who can get a diagnosis to get one. RELATED: Fighting for a Diagnosis, Building Resilience A Diagnosis Determines Treatment, Prognosis, and More Sanders, an internist at Yale New Haven hospital in Connecticut, an associate professor of internal medicine and education at Yale School of Medicine, and the author of the book Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries. ![]() So it’s no surprise that she has become one of the leading voices in the field of medical sleuthing, writing the Diagnosis column in the New York Times for decades, and starring in a Netflix documentary series of the same name.Ī key step in every doctor-patient journey is the diagnosis, says Dr. Two things Lisa Sanders, MD, loves are a good mystery and a compelling story. ![]()
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