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The Doctor Doesn't Know Either: Inside the Diagnostic Crisis
Author and New York Times Health and Science Opinion Editor Alexandra Sifferlin has spent years as a journalist fielding emails from patients who couldn't get a straight answer from medicine—not because their doctors were incompetent, but because diagnosis is harder, messier, and more dependent on luck and geography than anyone wants to admit. Her book The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis traces the problem from rural Kentucky to the NIH's Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and her conversation with M4 Jeff Goddard, M1 Madelyn Klemmensen, and M2 Zach Goddard goes deep on…
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