A US doctor is fronting a new Netflix series, using crowdsourcing to help solve rare real-life medical cases.

Dr Lisa Sanders has been writing a column for the New York Times Magazine called ‘Diagnosis’ for 15 years, in which she poses tricky conditions she’s either seen in her practice or colleagues have passed on to her.

And now the physician, an associate professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, is presenting a Netflix series with the same name to help patients with medical mysteries.

Each of the seven episodes is based on a column she’s already written, in which she features a case that has not been solved.