“Here’s the thing about diagnosis: it’s not about finding the truth. It’s about catching the lie. The patient lies to feel normal. The family lies to feel innocent. The other doctors lie to feel competent. And me? I lie to feel right. But the body — the body never lies. The body keeps receipts.
“You could have told the husband it wasn’t his fault sooner. Saved him six hours of thinking he was a murderer.” House M.D.
The husband breaks down. He wasn’t poisoning her — he was giving her “natural supplements” from an online guru to help her marathon time. The supplements were contaminated with thallium from a cheap overseas source. “Here’s the thing about diagnosis: it’s not about