Bird Pinkerton

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1,078 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Unexplainable · When doctors don't know what's wrong · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Again, even bad news is at least an answer.

Alexandra Sifferlin is the deputy science editor at The New York Times.

Her book is The Elusive Body, Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis.

And we only touched really on material in a few chapters of the book.

She also writes about topics like AI in diagnosis, long COVID, even the question of over-diagnosis.

So if you'd like to read more about diagnosis in general, check out our book.

This episode was produced by me, Bert Pinkerton.

It was edited by Meredith Hodnot.

Christian Ayala did the mixing and the sound design.

Melissa Hirsch checked the facts.

Noam Hassenfeld does our music.

Lissa Sowep, Valerie Schenkman, Sally Helm, and Joanna Solitaroff are the fact that hummingbird moths exist and you should look them up.

Thanks always to Brian Resnick for co-creating the show with me and Noam.

Thanks also to Louise Proctor for taking the time to speak to me about the details of her story.

And thanks to Dr. Cynthia St.

Hilaire, who is no longer a postdoc, but an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

She took time to explain her work to me, and I really appreciate it.

And if you have thoughts about diagnosis or further topics in this vein that we should dig into, we are at unexplainable at Vox.com.

If you would like to support this show and the journalism that Vox does, we would love it if you would become a member.

It is very easy to do.

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