Alexandra Sifferlin

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650 appearances 2 recordings 2 series 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 podcast
Yeah.
But, you know, it is complicated.
Like, sometimes a person comes in complaining of symptoms, and there's nothing really coming up on tests yet.
But as years go by, perhaps it does develop into something more serious.
And so...
There are some understandable questions around, was that initial visit an error or is that just sort of the practice, the standard practice of medicine?
So there's some gray area for sure, but I think it can kind of be some of the thing where you sort of know it when you see it.
When you find out this was cancer and then there's a few people in my book who had this experience, I think it becomes very frustrating when you've gone to the doctor again and again with the same complaints and it turns out it was something more serious than you were told.
Owens, correct?
So when I was doing the reporting of this book, I was so interested in this question every time I would speak to a physician or a clinician who diagnoses and asking them, what exactly are you doing and what is going on in your brain?
And it was kind of fun because I think it almost becomes innate in some ways.
A physician goes through their medical school.
They memorize so many things about the body and how it's supposed to work when it's healthy and the various ways that things can go wrong and what the body looks like when it's sick.
And you're memorizing specific conditions and you're learning about all these different symptoms and what symptoms could be this disease over that one.
But at a very basic level, when a doctor is looking to diagnose, they're looking at a few basic things.
First, a person's symptoms.
So you come in and you say, I am experiencing like a really severe itching pain on my neck.
Then they are looking for signs.
So does that person have a rash that is corresponding with those symptoms?
Yes.
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