当疾病抗拒诊断：美国医疗体系中的诊断危机

Structural constraints stymie patients and physicians when symptoms cannot be easily explained Lucy Tu THE ELUSIVE BODY | Modern medicine can sequence entire genomes in hours and image the body in exquisite detail. Yet for millions of Americans, one of medicine’s most fundamental tasks—naming what is wrong—frequently breaks down. In The Elusive Body, journalist Alexandra Sifferlin explores what it means to live without a diagnosis in a health care system often ill-equipped to provide one. Drawing on 7 years of reporting, she investigates the structural, technological, and human forces that define what she calls America’s “diagnosis crisis,” while centering the patients and clinicians working to change it. Sifferlin is adept at rendering technical material legible. …