In my column, which Iβve written since 2002, I follow the path of patients who sought and found the diagnoses that often changed their lives. My column focuses on patients who have already found an answer. Last year, I embarked on a new adventure: Bringing my passion to understand the process of diagnosis to a documentary series for Netflix β with Times readers at the center. This time my focus was on patients still searching for a diagnosis.
It worked like this: I introduced a series of patients with symptoms, but no answers, to my readers. I shared detailed accounts of each patientβs illness, as well as key components of their medical records. Then we asked readers to tell us what they thought might be the cause.
Hundreds and sometimes thousands of readers from all over the world responded. Many of their suggestions were used in the documentaries. There are seven episodes, featuring eight patients.
Iβve been practicing medicine for nearly 20 years.
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EDIT, 1:49 pm: Thanks, yβall, for joining me today. And thank you for posing all these great questions. I'm signing off for now but I'll try to check back in later if I can. Lisa
In 2018, culture is being evaluated for its moral correctness more than for its quality.
>My questioning Raeβs believability appalled one of my tablemates enough to rise in angry defense of the show. βThis is about her life,β he said of Rae. βShe worked hard to get this show made, and itβs her story. So you canβt just say you donβt believe it.β Here we were, two black men having it out about how to critique a black womanβs art. On one hand, he was right. Rae had labored to get a serious company to whisk her comedy β and her black face and body β from the internet to television. She succeeded, and people rejoiced. I was eating corn soup next to one of those people.
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>Implicit in his rebuttal was pride in the righting of a wrong. Even in this so-called golden age of TV, with its proliferations of nonwhite people, queer folks and women, some of whom are running productions, a comedy by and built around black women remains anomalous. So βInsecureβ might be too rare to dislike.
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>On the other hand, where does that leave someone who dislikes it? My tablemate insisted that who and what the show represents are more important than whether the show works for me. We couldnβt have that argument because that argument was a luxury. My wish for entertainment was an affront to the showβs right to exist; its being morally good superseded any imperative for it to be creatively better.
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>The urge to protect βInsecureβ isnβt dissimilar from the one to condemn old TV, like βThe Simpsons,β βFriendsβ and βSex in the Cityβ for racism, homophobia, slut-shaming and rampant whiteness. Issa and Molly deserve to be on American television because, for so long, they werenβt.
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>The real-world and social-media combat weβve been in for the past two years over what kind of country this is β who gets to live in it and bemoan (or endorse!) how itβs being run β have now shown up in our beefs over culture, not so much over the actual works themselves but over the laws governing that culture and the discussion around it, which artists can make what art, who can speak. Weβre talking less about whether a work is good art but simply whether itβs good β good for us, good for the culture, good for the world.
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>We have language that helps do the sorting. A person who insults, harasses or much, much w
Series on \"boomerang kids\" for The New York Times Magazine.
Series on \"boomerang kids\" for The New York Times Magazine.
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