Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories
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Picking up where Berton Roueché's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.
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Jonathan A. Edlow. (2009). Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories. Yale University Press.
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Mimicking the style of his favorite genre, the detective story, author and doctor Edlow (Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease) retells 15 stories of "shoe-leather epidemiology" that delve into the complex world of diagnostic medicine. In the title story, three cases of botulism are traced, with the work of physicians, local health department officials, and CDC representatives, to a jar of oil-packed garlic. Other chapters cover typhoid fever in restaurant orange juice, gastrointestinal infestation via fish tank water, and illnesses caused by excess vitamins A and D. Readers, especially those already alarmed over everyday pathogens, will find plenty to worry about, including herbal teas grandfathered out of FDA regulations; sudden changes in diets that may, literally, plug up your pipes; and all-natural, fresh-pressed cider that may harbor dangerous e. coli. Readers will also find that every medical diagnosis is a puzzle to be solved, often by gathering and analyzing data with the help of a team. Much like a true-life version of television's House M.D., these fast-paced, detail-heavy stories will prove compelling for fans of mystery and medicine.
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There is more mystery and suspense in this nifty tome than in an entire season of House TV programs, enhanced by the added punch real-life drama delivers. From the titular dinner party to the young man diagnosed with now-you-see-it-now-you-dont lung cancer to the nearly lethal bacteria that mystifyingly attacked a handful of toddlers in the Boston area, Edlow also tells these tales of medical detection with wit and elegance. As in the case of the woman whose identity-defying skin rash stumped her physician and the lab, the perp of the physical assault that is disease is, all too often, someone or something known and trusted. And Edlow can be trusted to weave a medical mystery out of the yarn of baffling symptoms, one guaranteed to be informative and entertaining, every time. Much more of such stuff, and Edlow could easily become the dean, the Dr. Watson, as it were, of doctors who solve medical mysteries.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)
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