This was on my "books to read this year" list and once I got started I couldn't put it down. When I started to lose weight and exercise I had various pains and minor injuries. I noticed that the doctors could never see past my weight. I couldn't possibly have anything else wrong with me.

I don't fault them, my weight was a very big issue.

But I noticed patterns in how they behaved and didn't like what I saw. This book is written by a doctor and is mostly a collection of case studies in doctors being wrong. But he explains *why* the doctors were wrong and what steps can be taken to lead the doctor down the correct path.

I'd like to think that all doctors are like Dr. House: excited by the chase of a difficult diagnosis. But mostly they are just normal people who want to fix the suffering immediately in front of them and never get much further because there is so much immediate suffering going on all around.

If you've ever been frustrated in getting a good diagnosis from a doctor, this is an excellent book to give you clues in how to deal with them.