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Dr. Leana Wen and Dr. Joshua Kosowsky - When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests

Two Harvard E.R. physicians take on the American health care system, asking patients to rise up and advocate for themselves.  Rather than participating in complaint-based “cookbook medicine,” Wen and Kosowsky encourage individual diagnosis, asking doctors and patients to consider case histories instead of one-size fits all health care.  

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