What the patient is the expert on is that body and how that body feels. 'I am the expert on bodies, how bodies work, how bodies don't work, and what we can do about it. 'The way I see a medical interaction is it's a conference between two experts,' Dr. Lisa Sanders, an internist at the Yale School of Medicine and longtime author of the New York Times Magazine column ' Diagnosis' and The Well blog column 'Think Like a Doctor' as she works with patients to solve medical mysteries using a wide network of global experts, including the internet. Netflix's new Scott Rudin-produced show, Diagnosis, premieres today on the streaming platform.

Sanders was the inspiration for the TV show 'House.' Lisa Sanders as she helps patients uncover tricky medical diagnoses. Netflix just debuted a binge-worthy new series called Diagnosis.She has also published two books on weight loss and food choice - The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss With What You Know About Yourself in 2004 and The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep it Off and Still Eat the Foods You Love in 2005. In addition to her time in the hospital, Sanders is currently researching clinical decision making and the way diagnostic decisions and errors are made. After two years at Columbia University’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program, Sanders was accepted to the Yale School of Medicine “as part of the 10 percent of the class they reserve for weirdos,” she said. But by then, Sanders said, she was ready to move on professionally and decided that of all the subjects she covered as a journalist, medicine intrigued her most. Less than 10 years later, while working for CBS News, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story for coverage of Hurricane Hugo as it slammed into her hometown of Charleston, S.C. After graduation she took a job with ABC at Good Morning America. As an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary, she majored in English, wrote for The Flat Hat, the college paper, and served pints of ale at Chownings Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. Sanders’ path to medicine was anything but traditional.

Her most recent book is a collection of her columns and is titled, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries. Last year she collaborated with the New York Times on an eight-hour documentary series on the process of diagnosis for Netflix. In 2010, she published a book titled Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. Her column was the inspiration for the Fox program House MD (2004-2012) and she served as a consultant to the show. In addition to her work as a physician and teacher, she writes the popular Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine and the Think Like a Doctor column featured in the New York Times blog, The Well. Lisa Sanders is a clinician educator in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program.

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