

A few years into her medical training, she was approached by a writer at The New York Times Magazine who asked her, “What can doctors write?” Sanders replied that doctors collect stories every single day about the patients they treat and that perhaps she could translate some of those stories into print. Sanders, an internist at the Yale University School of Medicine, spent a decade working in journalism before becoming a physician. Diagnosis is a process, one that Sanders advocates should include the patient.


Patients usually have a sense of what’s ailing them they may have an idea of what their illness is or have some insight into its cause. That’s a question Lisa Sanders thinks doctors should be asking their patients more often.
