Hosts, Dr. Michael Roizen and Joe Galuski discuss recent health topics.
Guest, Dr. Lisa Sanders, technical advisor to the hit TV show "House" joins Dr. Mike to discuss her new book, "Every Patient Tells a story".
Plus...The Real Age Tip of the Week - Smaller Hips and Bigger Brains!
Guest Info
Lisa Sanders, M.D., New York Times Magazine “Diagnosis Columnist” and Technical Advisor to HOUSE, M.D. (Television Series) -
Lisa Sanders, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinician educator in Yale’s Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency program. Dr. Sanders writes the popular “Diagnosis” column, which appears monthly in The New York Times Magazine. Her column was the inspiration for the acclaimed Fox television show “House M.D.,” and she currently serves as technical advisor for the show. Although teaching about clinical reasoning and diagnostic error is her first love, much of her research and practice focus on the treatment of overweight and obese patients She is the author of The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep it Off And Still Eat the Foods You Love. Before entering medical school, Sanders was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health and she also worked as a producer at ABC and NBC News. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author of: EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (published by Broaddway Books a Div of Random House Publishers)Before she went to medical school, Dr. Lisa Sanders was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered health and medicine.
Lisa Sanders' monthly "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times Magazine was an inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House. The medical drama, which made its debut in 2004, stars Hugh Laurie as an eccentric but inspired medical diagnostician who, episode after episode, works out what's causing the odd symptoms his patients are showing up with.Sanders, an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, is the show's technical advisor, a former CBS News producer, and an author. Her new book is Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis.
