Alexandra Sifferlin

I think

You know, often on the TV shows, this is like in an emergency room situation, but it can be the case for just an average physician appointment.

Just having making sure that the other clinicians involved are, you know, can be most helpful to figuring out what's wrong with the person in front of them.

I personally feel from just the reporting that I've done for my book that the best diagnosticians, the people who are called the masters, are the ones that sort of routinely bring other people in and sort of routinely work through diagnoses as a group and discuss things.

as a group.

For instance, there's this physician in the book, Dr. Gapreet Dhaliwal, who is widely considered to be one of the best diagnosticians in the country.

I recently was fact-checking something by another physician, and I said, you know, would you agree he's one of the best in the country?

He's like, no, he's the best in the world.

Like, people love him.

But anyway, what I think part of what makes him so good and special is

And he not only regularly interrogates his own diagnosis, so he actually will go back and look at all the cases that he saw maybe over a two-week period.

And he'll follow up and see, did I get that right?

Did I not get that right?

If I didn't get that right, what did I do wrong?

But then what he will also do is he will bring in other members of the team that he's on.

And he's at the San Francisco VA.

And whether it's younger physicians or other clinicians, they will together talk about these conditions.

different cases and what they got right and what they got wrong and why.

And I think that sort of constant work and collaborative work is really important.

You know, one of the places where I think