--- product_id: 153160696 title: "Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries" price: "104.23 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/153160696-diagnosis-solving-the-most-baffling-medical-mysteries store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries **Price:** 104.23 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries - **How much does it cost?** 104.23 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/153160696-diagnosis-solving-the-most-baffling-medical-mysteries) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.” In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis—and treatment—is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel—and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved. Review: Very interesting book! - This book is SO interesting. It is very well written and easy to understand. Review: Fun Read for the Layperson - Written by a practicing physician, this book is filled with short chapters (4-5 pages, generally) that originally appeared as columns in The New York Times Magazine. These cover the roughly 5% of diagnoses that are difficult for doctors to make, simply because they are rare or have unusual presentations. For a person with no understanding of medical terminology, this book would be quite interesting because the author defines terms clearly. If the reader does have some knowledge of medical terminology, the explanations become redundant. Would not recommend for people in the medical field. The book would be enjoyed by people who enjoy medical shows on TV. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #87,651 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #19 in Science Essays & Commentary (Books) #47 in Medical Diagnosis (Books) #98 in Medical Diseases (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,273 Reviews | ## Images ![Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ld31KRdZL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very interesting book! *by J***7 on April 18, 2026* This book is SO interesting. It is very well written and easy to understand. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun Read for the Layperson *by C***R on June 1, 2023* Written by a practicing physician, this book is filled with short chapters (4-5 pages, generally) that originally appeared as columns in The New York Times Magazine. These cover the roughly 5% of diagnoses that are difficult for doctors to make, simply because they are rare or have unusual presentations. For a person with no understanding of medical terminology, this book would be quite interesting because the author defines terms clearly. If the reader does have some knowledge of medical terminology, the explanations become redundant. Would not recommend for people in the medical field. The book would be enjoyed by people who enjoy medical shows on TV. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thinking outside the box *by T***Y on January 5, 2022* The author, herself a physician, presents cases with unusually diagnoses, in language lay person like myself can understand. She discusses the patients' symptoms and the effects they have, detrimentally, on the patients. The reader of her book is absorbed with the patients as people and and with their medical and lifestyle problems. There is the story of a patient with symptoms doctors can't explain. Many diseases are ruled out, even Lyme's disease. But it turns out patient does indeed have a tick-borne disease, one that is not susceptible to the medication that treats Lyme's disease, which medication she had been put on. In fact, the patient had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, from a different species of tick. Another patient with a myriad of symptoms that baffled doctors for a while turned out to have Schnitzler syndrome, wherein macrophages go wild and tell the body to act like it's infected. An expensive drug was available to treat it, but the patient's insurance company wouldn't pay for it. The doctor appealed to the drug manufacturer, which thereupon provided the drug to the patient for free. The patient then became symptom free. Another patient wound up having Lemierre's syndrome. It's a rare infection that was very fatal before antibiotics. Even now, with antibiotics, it's 18 percent fatal. It's caused by a strep throat going awry. It took month, but this patient recovered completely. There's a message from this case : take strep throat seriously. There can be serious side effects from prescribed medications. One patient was on allopurinol for gout. She developed an allergic reaction that affected the kidneys. She was on dialysis for weeks. The gout medication was stopped. The patient then rapidly improved. Another patient turned out to have a disease from flying squirrels. It was endemic typhus, a rare bacterial disease. Once diagnosed and treated, the patient recovered. A patient with mystifying symptoms was determined to have hereditary angioedema, a genetic anomaly . She was treated with steroids to prevent the swelling caused by the disease. Another patient developed symptoms that included tingling, numbness and an irregular heart beat. Turns out the patient had cinguatera poisoning from a barracuda fish he ate. The toxin therefrom came from organisms that grow on reef algae in some tropical waters. Cooking doesn't destroy the toxin. The symptoms can persist for months, even years. I only eat fish from cold water, fish such as cod,haddock, flounder, sole. In another case, s young woman with a medical problem that defied diagnosis, died. Her organs were donated. The recipient of her liver died within days of receiving the liver transplant. Turns out the dead donor had a rare genetic defect and was missing an enzyme that breaks down proteins and thereby allows ammonia to build up with fatal conclusions. A patient presented with pain,fever, and inflammation. She had familial Mediterranean fever, which caused malformed proteins. White blood cells overreacted. The patient was put on the medication colchicine,which prevents most attacks. The patient takes this medication regularly. I assume for life. Another baffling set of symptoms in another patient turned out to be Whipple's disease, caused by a bacterium. The patient was on antibiotics for more than a year. The patient was able to stop using a wheelchair, then able to put aside a walker, and even be able to walk without a cane -- but not far. And so it goes, one medical mystery after another in this compendium of interesting and challenging medical cases. I was enthrall despite my lack of a medical background. I love good detective stories, including medical ones. I recommend this book. ## Frequently Bought Together - Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries - Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis - How Doctors Think --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/153160696-diagnosis-solving-the-most-baffling-medical-mysteries](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/153160696-diagnosis-solving-the-most-baffling-medical-mysteries) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-08*