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Every Patient Tells a Story
- Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
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Publisher's Summary
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis", the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, "What is wrong with me"? They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it - on some level - restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer".
A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory - making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment - only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU - bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent - and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis.
Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms, or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, s not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness - the diagnosis - revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors.
In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives.
Critic Reviews
"Besides her own inborn capacity for problem-solving, Sanders' experience as internist, writer, and consultant to House serves her well here, for absorbing anecdotes generously pepper the exposition." ( Booklist)
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- Ronda
- 05-11-12
Make sure this is what you think!
If you are looking for a book that is about mysterious diagnoses, be aware, there are only a few examples in this book. The book is about the various methods doctors employ to diagnose. It's really written for doctors, but the author uses lay language, as if the lay person could take the information and somehow apply it to their lives. I found it interesting, but not valuable. The author should have allowed someone else to orate her book. Her raspy voice is hard to listen to some times.
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- B.r.t
- 03-26-17
Raspy voice
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The stories are interesting, but this author really should have had someone else read the book. Her voice is not pleasant to listen to for this many hours. I find finishing this book a struggle and I love this genre.
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- Dr. Liz
- 12-16-17
Annoying narration detracted from worthwhile book
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Probably not.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Every Patient Tells a Story?
Patient anecdotes are the most interesting part.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The whiny voice, inexpert emphases whille reading, and lame attempts at rendering voices of patients were very annoying. The author should have had someone else narrate.
Could you see Every Patient Tells a Story being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
I guess it already has been, since the author consulted on "House."
Any additional comments?
There is a lot of interesting content here. As a retired doctor I like this genre, although I think Jerome Groopman's "How Doctors Think" was better. More of interest to medical professionals than to lay readers.
7 people found this helpful
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- Cassandra
- 03-04-13
Interesting perspectives on the difficult patient
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Definitely, as a nurse I am always interested at examining the patient experience from differing perspectives.
What did you like best about this story?
That it was based on actual case studies.
What aspect of Lisa Sanders’s performance would you have changed?
I enjoyed her narration.
Could you see Every Patient Tells a Story being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Yes it could be done similarly to the autopsy series by Jan Garavalas.
7 people found this helpful
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- D. Vance
- 04-22-17
I am an internist and I really enjoyed this book
I'm at internal medicine physician, the "Sherlock Holmes specialty" and I really enjoyed this book, it is written at a level that is just right for professionals and patients to understand and enjoy. Dr. Sanders is passionate about making the right diagnosis and points out many of the shortcomings of modern medicine. I found this to be inspirational in my continuing efforts to practice high-quality medicine. I think patients will learn a lot about how their doctors think and have a better understanding of our healthcare system. Thanks to Dr. Sanders for producing this very thought-provoking book.
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- Elizabeth
- 03-21-11
Really good if you can get past the narrator.
I love Dr. Lisa Sanders' "Diagnosis" column in the NYT Magazine. This is more of the same. But the narrator, and I hate to hurt her feelings, is just so flat that it detracts from the book.
18 people found this helpful
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- Tina Marie Jackson
- 08-10-19
If you like text books this is the book for you!
So sorry I purchased this. I was hoping it was going to get better. I love medical books written by Doctors, nurses, and paramedics such as myself. I expect them to be chaotic mostly funny because pts are inherently funny, with times of educational gratification, boredom and excitement. Not at all the case here. Just boredom unadulterated boredom. Great if you want to sleep.
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- Anna
- 09-12-17
From a student
fantastic book. Learned many new things about the art and science of medicine. important reading for all students of health professions.
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- Carolyn F. Auge
- 09-21-11
Overall Good but a bit repetitive
This audio book was overall very good but the theme became a bit repetitive after a while - Physical Exam, Physical Exam, Physical Exam!. OK, I get it, have your doc perform a physical exam. I will have to say though, that it is a bit disturbing that many doctors do not perform this exam in contrast to your veterinarian who ALWAYS does this. The best part of the book were the stories of diagnostic mysteries of various patients. The reader was the author, which is always a bit scary for me to read as they typically are not professionals; however, she did a really good job.
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- Alan
- 10-24-10
Painful Voice
This would have been an excellent book, but her voice was awful to listen to. I reget that I did not have the patience to listen to the awful sound of narration.
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- Chris Rayner
- 04-07-13
How to be a doctor.
Having retired from the practice of medicine a year or so ago, the subject of this book is naturally of more than passing interest to me. The author was a journalist who was so attracted by medicine that she quit her job and trained to be a doctor. An impressive feat, and providing her with a mature view of medicine and the tools to express it in easily read prose.
I understand that much of the book derives from her newspaper column, and that this column was part of the inspiration for the TV series 'House.' The principal point she makes in the book is that medicine has departed from the personal professional model which prevailed until the 1960s and has become a technical scientific process which all too often concentrates more on the patient's test results while ignoring the patient.
Well this is something which I have felt throughout my medical career. Indeed I remember a joke which was current in my undergraduate days about American ward rounds. It was said that the ward round would take place in a room off the ward where the patient's biochemical, haematological and pathological test results were presented and discussed. If at the end of this process no firm conclusion on the diagnosis or management of the case could be reached the senior clinician would say, 'Well all the tests are inconclusive, I suppose we'd better go and see the patient.'
I am happy to say that in my day we could see the error in this approach. A famous Canadian Physician, Sir William Osler (1849-1919) was the founder of patient centred medicine, and famously said, 'Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.' This was true then and remains so. This book is a valuable reminder of this.
The author narrates it herself, and I find her delivery a little wearing. That may just be me, she is a well-respected broadcaster in her own country. I find the points made in the book somewhat repetitive, and I think it would have benefited from a little more aggressive editing.
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- jane joensen
- 09-01-14
Interesting & Helpful
What did you like most about Every Patient Tells a Story?
I liked the in depth details of different diagnoses.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Every Patient Tells a Story?
Every case educated me.
Did Lisa Sanders do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?
I don't find this is the kind of book where giving different people characters is necessary.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I found all the cases moving
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The book is very intense and I think that it will benefit people working in nursing or the like most.
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- syed
- 05-01-19
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This has been my favourite medical book . scintillating stories mixed with valuable knowledge. I just read the first chapter and I didn't stop.
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- Loretta Bradley
- 11-12-17
riveting
it really shows a light on the grey areas doctors live in. It's told in a page turning thrilling manner
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- Cassandra Teunissen
- 11-08-21
gender isn't that hard
the book and stories are great, but the author really needs to get with it in terms of gender referencing. they insisted on using 'he' for patients and 'she' for doctors all the way through, claiming there's no alternative that's fair for all genders... bro, they/them is RIGHT there. it's not that hard.
otherwise it's a cool collection of medical info and stories.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-20
great and insightful read!
loved it from start to finish and there was much tibits of things to learn about medicine and doctors.
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- Kathryn
- 03-23-16
Interesting but average
Would you try another book written by Lisa Sanders or narrated by Lisa Sanders?
Possibly
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
the patient stories and diseases were incredibly interesting but the point to telling each of those stories was a bit bland.
Was Every Patient Tells a Story worth the listening time?
It was okay, i didnt mind.
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