(It does, however, subtly but effectively highlight systemic problems in our health care system.) Some of those moments are raw and difficult to watch, but they’re all creating empathy there are no villains here. It spends so much time with the episode’s subject that we can clearly see how this affects them, both physically and mentally, and how it affects those around them.

It has all of the artistry that Chasing the Cure lacks-slow, drifting drone shots over neighborhoods and city streets-but it’s also just much more effective at telling stories. Thankfully, neither is Yahoo Answers: The TV show, as they both filter out well-intentioned misinformation-or harmful lunacy-before it gets spread even further (unlike actual Yahoo Answers, or YouTube, or Facebook, or Twitter…).īut only one is a good television show, and that’s Diagnosis. Both shows place crowdsourcing and help from people online at their center, and the stories they’ve chosen to focus on involve people who eventually get answers and help from people on the Internet. That’s the question that hangs over both Diagnosis and the TNT/TBS live reality series Chasing the Cure, which premiered last week and is hosted by Ann Curry. Lisa Sanders asks at the beginning of Diagnosis, the new Netflix series that follows people with undiagnosed ailments as they go public with their story to “If it does work, what does that mean for medicine?” Dr.

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