Sanders was working with Bob Arnot, MD, an internal medicine doctor and CBS correspondent on a story about white-water rafting. But one day during a live shot along a river in North Carolina, Sanders’ glimpse into the medical world would forever change her view. As a journalist, she covered many fields, including medicine and admittedly, questioned why people would go into ‘such a narrow’ field. In fact while at CBS, Sanders won an Emmy award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story for coverage of Hurricane Hugo. Her career in journalism and television blossomed, working at ABC and CBS. After completing her undergraduate degree in English at a university in Virginia, she moved to New York City. The path Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP, took to medicine was a winding one.

Check out the trailer here.As part of our “Meet Yale Internal Medicine” series, today’s featured physician is Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine). “Diagnosis” is now available for streaming on Netflix.

This, while embracing a collective, inclusive ethos - beneficial to those who feel isolated due to their mysterious illness - and noting that using the internet to diagnose ailments isn’t a bad thing, all of the time, at least. Sanders aims to diagnose the cases of patients’ who have been brushed off by other doctors as “it all being in their head” to those in which small, but crucial, details have been overlooked. Families sob and squabble and speechify to the camera, but there are also educational infographics and maps showing responses sailing in from all over the world.' In fact, Sanders’ Times' column was part inspiration for the popular show, Women’s Health reports.Īccording to Wired, the show falls between a “Dateline-ish daytime television and a nerdy online social experiment. If you’re thinking the seven-episode “Diagnosis” sounds like a real-life version of the old Fox TV show “House,” you’d be correct. RELATED READ: Jefferson doc assesses medical mysteries on TNT's new 'Chasing the Cure' show Sanders and her crowdsourced panel of medical experts to figure them out. Similarly, “Diagnosis” features patients submitting their perplexing, undiagnosed, medical conditions and taps into the expertise of Dr. This is the second medical mystery-style show to launch this summer, following TNT’s series “ Chasing the Cure,” which features a Jefferson Health doctor as one of the medical experts on the series' panel. Lisa Sanders’ medical advice column in New York Times Magazine, the new Netflix documentary series, “ Diagnosis” features Sanders working with a network of global experts and the internet to solve medical mysteries.

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