Linda Sanders: “The problem for Decter was one that doctors face regularly: how to reconcile tests that contradict one another. Often patients, and even doctors, think that test results provide a definitive answer “” like the solution in today’s paper to yesterday’s crossword. But every test carries a risk of being wrong, and all tests need to be interpreted. This is never clearer than when different tests seem to tell different stories. Could these apparently contradictory results be shaped into a single narrative that made sense?”
