Season 1 – Diagnosis

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10/11/2019 It could be good, but the narrator is really annoying. He states the bloody obvious, just stating what we can see with our own eyes. See more 09/09/2019 Started with very high expectations and this ended up being just a bunch of more woke crap like all new netflix things See more 09/07/2019 I love the articles in The NY Times that inspired this show. It's an interesting concept. But the shows are much too long. They should cut to the chase and boil them down to a half hour. Too much bathos. See more 09/04/2019 Not great. I've watched all 7 episodes and am pretty disappointed. I realize not all medical problems have a clear cut solution. However, these shows have no real conclusion. We're just left there hanging after becoming invested in outcomes. But only 2 of these episodes have such outcomes where there's at least a hint that recommended treatment is working, where the viewer understands the patient finds a solution for a serious health challenge. That said, Episode #1 where the "crowd" does actually work in the sense that a student at a lab in Italy actually studying the gene that might be -- and is later confirmed to be -- the cause of her symptoms sees the NYT article and calls in. The lab tests her and recommends a diet to solve her problem. As a viewer, I was incredibly frustrated and disappointed to not have better follow up. What was the diet? Why did it work? How effective was it? We don't know! What's the point in spending all that film time on the problem and almost zero on the actual solution. In most all of these episodes, we're left hanging. Even the first two that have something of a solution, we're not told if the recommended treatment worked, details on how it worked, and a followup some months later. In two, the subject ignores the best medical advice and the episode just fades to black. WTF?? Sure, people distrust doctors and, often, rightly so. But what's the point of a limited set of episodes showing people who ignore something that might help them. Again, frustrating and a waste of time for both the series and the viewer. I have every sympathy for people who are suffering but, I hate to say it, the show makes it difficult to really care See more 09/03/2019 It seems like "RUSS A" was expecting another season of the television series, "House". What he missed is the frustration and anxiety that can go into living with an illness that one has very little understanding for the etiology or cause of. Without a diagnosis, treatments may miss the mark, leaving patients wondering and suffering. This series demonstrates how much a sense of community can ameliorate the pain these patients endure in their daily lives. See more 08/25/2019 I love this Netflix series, but you probably have to have a certain kind of interest to love it. If you love solving inscrutable problems, and are fascinated by medical issues, then I think you'll love it as much as I do. The doctor at the NY Times is really excellent in this documentary. Her compassion, integrity and intelligence pull every case together. I am on episode 5 now, and prior to this episode, I kept asking myself, when are we going to hear that the doctors are telling this patient that their medical issues don't exist, and it's all of psychological origin, so go away and threaten my ego by suggesting I don't know everything? It finally happens in episode 5, which is very predictable, because a teenage girl who vomits is involved. I am shocked she received any medical treatment at all, to be honest, and wasn't accused by every doctor of having bulimia. Most people with unusual medical problems that involve thought and research are treated with hostility and divisiveness, and are almost always written off with a Freudian explanation for their symptoms. See more Read all reviews

Diagnosis — Season 1

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