It’s Not ‘All in Your Head’: When Other Doctors Give Up on Patients, a Boundary-Breaking Neurologist Treats Them

June 19, 2018

(STAT News) – Instead, she has been toying with the boundaries of illness itself. She likes seeing patients other doctors have given up on. Many have faced questions about whether they’re really as sick as they say. For all of them, getting the proper treatment — pills or infusions or electrical currents — depends on a kind of collaboration with Flaherty, a workshop in which motivations are re-examined, stories reshaped, turns of phrase redefined.