Eight Forty-Eight takes a …

Eight Forty-Eight takes a …

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Eight Forty-Eight takes a break this week to bring you Radio Lab. Today—“Diagnosis.” When Emmanuel was growing up in the Bronx, everyone in his family knew something wasn’t quite right. Then one day, 18 years later, his older brother takes him to a doctor and everything changes. This hour we look at what happens when we find out what is wrong. What counts as wrong in the first place? What does it feel like to deliver news that no one wants to hear? And how do people react when they finally find a label for what they have or what they are?