(published in US as Every Patient Tells a Story, Broadway, $25)
HERE’S hoping I never get a disease my doctor finds fascinating. These two collections of stories about rare diagnoses both have links to the TV series . Jonathan Edlow’s The Deadly Dinner Party is partly inspired by the writings of , whose tales of unusual illnesses gave rise to several of the show’s plots. Lisa Sanders, the author of Diagnosis, wrote a series of columns for The New York Times which also inspired the deliciously unpleasant Gregory House, MD.
Edlow’s collection of bite-sized essays about obscure infections, poisons and diseases – from infected…
