Alexandra Sifferlin
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650 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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This Podcast Will Kill You · Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body · 2 Jun 2026
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And so I think first and foremost, it would be sort of a recognition that diagnosis is
has evolved in these many different ways, and yet it still is something that could be improved upon even in the United States.
But I think some common issues that I've run into from both talking to patients and talking to physicians about diagnostic error is that everyone feels a bit frustrated with the healthcare experience right now.
Appointments, if you can get one, if the
often very short, which sometimes is okay if it's something like shingles and a doctor has seen it many, many times and they see it, they diagnose it, they give you a prescription.
Like in some cases, short is okay.
But in a more complicated situation, it's really not.
And a lot of patients feel like it's so hard to get an appointment with a physician.
It can take months and
And then when you're there, it's a very short appointment.
And for the physician, that's also not necessarily a great experience.
They're having to see more patients in shorter periods of time.
Burnout is really high.
You can be distracted or feel rushed and problems can emerge.
And so I think everyone is desiring a little bit more humanity injected into the system, whether it is simply the opportunity to have longer appointments or to have just more continuity in care.
Often people who have experienced long periods undiagnosed, you talk to them and they've seen like eight different doctors and
And they are often feeling like they're bringing their own medical information from physician to physician to physician and people aren't talking to each other.
And so I think in some ways, the way that the system is organized right now is not very conducive to the time that a complicated diagnosis might need.
And also diagnosis often works best when it's a team effort.
And so finding ways to involve not just the physician, but the nurse who's in the room, finding more ways for the patient to feel kind of empowered to share more.
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