For Heike Daldrup-Link, a clinician-scientist at Stanford Radiology, writing is all about “something that bothers you, [or] something that makes you think.” Daldrup-Link is a tenured physician and ...

The editors’ proposal sounded intriguing: a monthly column about people beset by baffling illnesses that were ultimately identified — a fraught, often frightening and sometimes life-altering quest ...