In her book, every patient tells a story Lisa Sanders introduces a patient who has sought medical help due to a medical or surgical illness, then describes the steps needed to diagnose the patient and subsequently treat them. Go into detail about what both the doctor and the patient thought and their reactions to the diagnosis. He also records his various meetings with the other doctors and their opinions on the increasingly lax physical exams and the new high-tech tests that are often given priority. But above all, great emphasis has been placed on the decline of the use of the traditional physical examination in favor of high-tech medical tests and newer procedures. Lisa Sanders provides several examples of what can be overlooked when the doctor does not spend adequate time listening to the patient and performing a careful physical examination. Lisa Sanders backs up her stories by citing quite a bit of research to support her thesis, but she also keeps an open mind and clearly does not ignore the value of more modern medical testing procedures, but rather highlights the synergy formed by combining those with physical exams to provide a complete analysis. I was able to gather the wealth of knowledge that Lisa Sanders communicates in “Every Patient Tells a Story”. This knowledge I speak of goes beyond simple “book knowledge,” it is wisdom expressed in the words and through the eyes of medical professionals and their patients. While this book had many lessons to offer, the key recurring theme/lesson/concept that is consistently communicated is the importance of a properly performed diagnosis. In vivid description of the pain and suffering experienced by the patient, Cryst... center of paper... often knows her patients well enough to know the details of their health status. Unfortunately, however, providers are becoming increasingly specialized in order to increase efficiency and handle larger volumes of people. This is further fueled by recent changes in healthcare reform; It is inevitable that learning and telling a patient's story has become an insignificant piece of the puzzle. Doctors simply cannot keep up with the ever-increasing number of health epidemics and so a patient's story slips through the cracks and often has to be told and retold again and again. My view of this issue is fundamental and I believe it is the root cause of why quality healthcare has become a rare commodity, linked to the lack of quality primary care where the doctor and patient communicate constantly and the doctor has a good vision of the problem. the patient's health history.