The Doctor as Detective | Lisa Sanders, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the real-life inspiration for and medical consultant to the popular TV show "House, M.D.," journalist-turned-physician Lisa Sanders, MD has played quite the role in elevating the prestige and drama of medical diagnosis. For the past 20 years, Dr. Sanders has written a column in the New York Times titled "Diagnosis," in which she discusses bizarre and fascinating medical cases. In 2019, this column was turned into a Netflix documentary series of the same name. She has garnered much acc...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctor's Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions. From 2004 to 2012, House MD was one of the most popular shows on television around the world.
1:11.0	The show, which followed the arrogant and witty Dr. Gregory House as he went about
1:14.9	cracking seemingly unsolvable medical cases, was based in large part on the writings of our
1:19.5	guest today, Dr. Lisa Sanders, who also served as a medical consultant on the show during its entire run.
1:25.6	For the past 20 years, Dr. Sanders has written a column for the New York Times on Medical Mysteries, which was adapted in 2019 as a Netflix miniseries titled Diagnosis.
1:37.8	She is also the author of multiple best-selling books on the process of medical diagnoses. In this episode, Dr. Sanders joins us in conversation
1:46.4	about her unorthodox path to medicine and the role of storytelling and healing patients.
1:51.1	Dr. Sanders, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today.
1:57.0	Thanks for inviting me.
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