Dr. Leana Wen is the co-author of “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests,” a text she wrote with Joshua Kosowsky, MD. The book arose from their frustration at the number of tests modern medicine seems to require, often with no useful results or help in arriving at a diagnosis. In our talk, Dr. Wen discusses what she thinks patients should know and do to help docotrs arrive at proper diagnoses.

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