
Or 6-year-old Kamiyah Morgan, who experiences temporary paralysis hundreds of times a day, causing her to lose motor control for up to 30 seconds at a time. Subjects like Willy Reyes, a fun-loving 46-year-old Gulf War vet who describes suffering a seizure that left him with hearing and memory loss and mood swings. She later consulted on the hit show.ĭiagnosis episodes unfold like a real-life House, and it's impossible not to root for the subjects as they search for long-sought answers and find comfort and community connecting with others who empathize with their experiences. Sanders' Diagnosis column inspired the Fox TV show House, which starred Hugh Laurie as a misanthropic but brilliant diagnostician who could unravel virtually any medical mystery. In it, Sanders speaks to people with mysterious. Lisa Sanders, the physician whose newspaper column inspired the Hugh Laurie medical drama House. "There's not one answer, but a dozen answers," she says. The show comes from The New York Times and Dr. Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal.


Sanders has been intrigued by medical mysteries since early in medical school, when she had a realization about illness. Lisa Sanders 79 is very different from the star ofHouse, M.D., the television show that she helped inspire and for which she now serves as medical advisor. A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis columnnow a Netflix original series.
