Some diagnoses are immediately obvious others require a myriad of tests and studies. She did all that, ran the right tests, and came up with the correct answer.” The process of a diagnosis is: you cast a wide net and think, what could this possibly be? You eliminate things as they don’t add up. Then she took the time to carefully think things through.

“First, she took care of the immediate crisis, his flooded heart. “What got my interest was Laura Glick’s thoughtful approach,” says Sanders. She featured it in her popular biweekly New York Times column, “Diagnosis.” Without their input, we would not have been able to make a diagnosis.”īecause the case was so unusual, it was presented at the Department of Internal Medicine’s weekly Medical Grand Rounds, where Yale faculty member and New York Times columnist Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP, heard it and was fascinated. “Everyone from the medical student to the attending physician and the consultants played an integral role.

“Medicine is such a team sport and it took an entire team to help him,” she says. Through due diligence, collaboration, and medical detective work, Glick identified the patient’s problem and his life was saved. The patient, a 39-year-old man in grave condition, had been airlifted by helicopter from Westerly Hospital to Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) with a host of symptoms that defied explanation. This interest was put to the ultimate test last fall, when Glick, then a second-year resident in the Department of Internal Medicine’s Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program, led the way in diagnosing a disease that’s so rare, most physicians never see it. “There’s an art and a process in figuring out a difficult diagnosis, and I love that challenge,” she says. Laura Glick, MD, has a keen interest in rare and unusual diagnoses, going back to her days as a medical student.

Lisa sanders new york times diagnosis