Suzanne O’Sullivan, MD opens her new book, “The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker,” with a medical conundrum. It has no easy answers and presents life-altering ramifications.
One of her patients had been diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, an incurable degenerative brain condition. There was a 50 percent chance that her daughter, Valentina, who was in her late 20s and pregnant, would inherit it. Dr. O’Sullivan sat with Valentina, who put off being tested for years after learning about her mother’s condition.
