Alexandra Sifferlin
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650 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Jun
Alexandra Sifferlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This Podcast Will Kill You · Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body · 2 Jun 2026
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And then a medical history.
So both a past medical history, for instance, has this person experienced chickenpox when they were younger?
And also a recent medical history.
What age are they?
Are they under severe stress?
And then with all of those things together...
what is the most likely case here?
You know, someone experiencing like a burning, tingling, and they have a clear rash and they had chickenpox and they were younger, like that could be shingles.
And that's something that a physician could figure out very quickly because they would recognize what a shingle rash looks like.
They would recognize that this person has had this particular medical history and it all sort of comes together.
Where it gets more complicated is if it's something that can't be resolved that quickly.
It's not an immediate, I recognize this, I've seen this a thousand times before in my office, or it's something that shares a lot of symptoms with other things.
So many parents might have the experience of going to the pediatrician with a sick kid
And perhaps they want to do a test to know, does the child have COVID?
Do they have the flu?
Do they have RSV?
So then you can do an actual diagnostic test, like a swab.
And then if there's need for even further interrogation, there's then a variety of different kinds of tests.
Like, are you in a situation where you need to be bringing in an ultrasound?
You need to appear inside the body, you know?
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