The writer of The Post’s popular column says primary-care physicians can help a patient and advises people to be organized and summarize symptoms clearly.
I checked in with Sandra to find out more about how she writes the column and the lessons we can learn from it.It has to be something I haven’t written about. It has to be a solved case. I need to know the ultimate diagnosis. Even though it’s a solved case, there has to be a mystery. And there has to be a human story.I ask for a chronology of events and medical records that confirm the diagnosis.
Then, I interview the patient, sometimes the parent, sometimes the spouse. The last step is to talk to the doctor who made the diagnosis or the current treating physicians. Any step along the way, the process can fail.No, it has to be a solved case. A lot of people write to me and say, “I have this problem, can you help me?” Unfortunately, that’s not what I do. I did once write aboutwho had gone to the undiagnosed-disease program at the National Institutes of Health.
. They couldn’t figure it out. An enterprising veterinarian got involved. It turned out their cat may have been the vector. When they finally treated the cat, nobody has had strep. One of the weirder ones — there was a woman who had serious kidney and heart problems. It turned out she was
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