Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

I bought this book for my nephew and his girl friend who are both training to be doctors. I read a bit and liked it--easy to read for none medical people. My nephew said "thanks for the book it`s brilliant,I can`t put it down!!"

ちょっとした患者の一言、些細な理学所見によりいかに名探偵が診断を下すのか。見たものを見ることができないとき如何に患者が悲惨な目に遭うか、ハイテク時代の全ての医師に大きな問題を提起している。軽い読み物としてもお勧め。

Interesting insight to the challenge of diagnosing diseases.

I was primarily looking for the mystery aspect of the TV show Dr House as the author is an advisor to the show. Interesting stories are interlaced with somewhat dry and a little redundant critique of the progressive loss of diagnostic skills among physician primarily due to the reliance on instrumentation and a gradual neglect of the information coming directly from the patient. Very informative, but less of the thriller I was looking for. More interesting in a similar genre was "The brain that heals itself", "the man that mistook his wife for a hat", etc.

The book is not covered with a plastic protector; the first page is folded, and some areas of the cover are damaged Though the price is high for a paper cover book !