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Science and Health Journalist

Alexandra Sifferlin

Alexandra Sifferlin is a science and health journalist and author of The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis. She has spent years embedded in hospital systems, interviewing leading diagnosticians and tracing families through diagnostic odysseys, mapping the structural failures that allow patient suffering to go unrecognized and untreated.

Known For

Investigative health journalism on diagnostic failureDocumenting the human cost of medical errorStructural analysis of healthcare systems

Books

The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis(2026)

Episodes