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Meet Lisa Sanders, The Doctor Behind 'House' Lisa Sanders' monthly "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times Magazine was an inspiration for the TV series House. Sanders, an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, is the show's technical advisor; her new book is Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis.

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Meet Lisa Sanders, The Doctor Behind 'House'

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Before she went to medical school, Dr. Lisa Sanders was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered health and medicine. Ben Stechschulte hide caption

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Before she went to medical school, Dr. Lisa Sanders was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered health and medicine.

Ben Stechschulte

Lisa Sanders' monthly "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times Magazine was an inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House.

The medical drama, which made its debut in 2004, stars Hugh Laurie as an eccentric but inspired medical diagnostician who, episode after episode, works out what's causing the odd symptoms his patients are showing up with.

Sanders, an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, is the show's technical advisor, a former CBS News producer, and an author. Her new book is Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis.