LISA SANDERS
PHYSICIAN · EDUCATOR · AUTHOR
A physician who turned one of medicine's greatest challenges — the search for the right diagnosis — into a conversation followed around the world.
DISCOVER HER STORY ↓Professor of Medicine
Clinical reasoning and medical storytelling
Books, television and documentary storytelling
EVERY SYMPTOM TELLS A STORY.
Diagnosis begins long before the answer appears.
Prof. Lisa Sanders is a physician, educator and writer whose career explores the process by which doctors move from uncertainty to understanding.
Her work places clinical reasoning, observation and the patient's story at the centre of medical decision-making.
WHERE UNCERTAINTY BECOMES INVESTIGATION.
Sanders' work examines challenging clinical cases and the process of reasoning that ultimately leads physicians towards the correct diagnosis.
Her storytelling brings the complexity of diagnostic medicine beyond the clinic and into a wider conversation.
FROM CLINICAL REASONING TO GLOBAL STORYTELLING.
HOUSE M.D.
Her diagnostic writing helped inspire one of television's best-known medical dramas.
NETFLIX
Her work expanded into documentary storytelling through the series Diagnosis.
AUTHOR
Her books explore diagnostic reasoning, uncertainty and some of medicine's most complex mysteries.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ANSWER IS NOT OBVIOUS?
Good diagnosis requires more than remembering the right disease.
It requires listening carefully, recognising patterns, questioning assumptions and deciding which pieces of information truly matter.