Summary: Every physician encounters unknown illnesses. Knowing what you don’t know, as well as how to talk a patient through to a potential diagnosis, can be challenging. Guest Cynthia Tifft, MD, PhD, director, Pediatric Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health has worked extensively on—and authored articles about—helping patients with rare disorders gain clarity on their condition and how to move forward. Joining us will be a patient of Dr. Tifft who has a rare condition that took several years to better understand.
