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True Medical Mysteries Get The TV Treatment On Netflix's 'Diagnosis'

The Netflix series Diagnosis is like true crime with diseases instead of murderers, and it's even better when it pauses to consider the real challenges of health care shortfalls.
Angel Parker, the subject of the first episode of <em>Diagnosis</em>, rests at the hospital with her boyfriend.

Think true crime, but with diseases instead of murderers.

That's the premise of , the new Netflix documentary series based on Dr. Lisa Sanders' column in the . The column, also called "Diagnosis," carries grabby headlines like and In these columns, Sanders describes mysterious symptoms suffered by a patient — often one without a persuasive diagnosis — and

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