Emily Kwong
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4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5d ago
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They told her this was probably a swollen lymph node.
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But Diana wasn't so sure.
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In her classes, she was learning about the characteristics of abnormalities, including tumors, and she thought this lump had
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had not even made it up the stairs from that appointment.
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When her doctor called and said, Yeah, this is a tumor.
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By that point, it had infiltrated her lymph nodes and was wrapped around an artery.
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And in surgery, her doctor realized it was leaking.
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because she was having a stroke.
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She lost feeling in her left arm and still experiences side effects to this day, all because of a tumor that was diagnosed far too late.
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So, today on the show, the diagnosis crisis: how diagnostic error affects patients, and what the doctors who are the best at diagnosis do differently.
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You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
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Okay, so to delve more into the diagnosis crisis, Diana and I are gonna be joined by Alexandra Sifferlin.
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She's an editor with the New York Times who just wrote a whole book about this issue called The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis.
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So, Alexandra, let's talk about the scope of the problem.
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After reporting this book, what did you learn about how widespread misdiagnosis is?
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Wait,
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Is it a medical education problem?
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Is it that doctors don't have enough time with patients?
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What are the systemic reasons why this is happening?
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You know, you mention Alexandra in your book, a particularly gifted diagnostician.
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