The Clinical Problem Solvers Creators & Guests

Lisa Sanders is an American physician, medical author and journalist, and associate professor of internal medicine and education at Yale School of Medicine. In 2002, she began writing a column for The New York Times called Diagnosis, that covered medical mystery cases. She is an attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, which serves as the model on which Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital was fashioned for the series House M.D. Her column was the inspiration for the television series House M.D., and she worked as a consultant on the show. In 2019, Netflix began airing the program Diagnosis, featuring a selection of cases from her column.

Dr. Emily Silverman is an internist at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She is interested in using storytelling to unearth complex truths about doctoring, build community, and facilitate an environment of acceptance and healing. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in The New York Times, JAMA, McSweeneys, and The Examined Life Journal. In her spare time she enjoys teaching herself guitar, and going for long walks with a podcast in her ears.