Alexandra Sifferlin
Health and science editor and author of The Elusive Body, focusing on diagnostic errors and the patient experience in medicine.
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Apr 7, 2026 • 55min
Why Aren’t Doctors Better At Diagnosing Illnesses?
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, a UCSF medicine professor and diagnostician, and Alexandra Sifferlin, health and science editor and author, explore why diagnoses go wrong. They discuss diagnostic errors, the limits of tests and AI, rare disease odysseys, biases against women, the role of multidisciplinary clinics, and how patients and clinicians can work together to find answers.
