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Misdiagnoses lead to inaccurate treatment. In turn, this has massively negative effects. The patient’s proper treatment can get delayed, and their actual condition can worsen. Aside from the physical and financial repercussions, there’s the emotional and mental toll to account for when an individual’s life gets turned upside down by false information.
Imagine, just for a moment, if your doctor missed a cancerous tumor early on. Or if they told you that you have cancer when it was some other illness wreaking havoc on your body. Not only could this potentially mean that you might lose your life, but if you survive, it would be incredibly hard to trust medical professionals in the future.
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Meanwhile, a BMJ Quality and Safety study found something eerily similar about the frequency of these situations as well. “Extrapolating to all diseases (including non-‘Big Three’ dangerous disease categories), we estimated total serious harms annually in the USA to be 795,000 (plausible range 598,000–1,023,000). Sensitivity analyses using more conservative assumptions estimated 549,000 serious harms,” the report states.
In other words, because of medical misdiagnoses, around 795,000 Americans become disabled or die. Every. Single. Year.
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It can also be very dangerous if you’re prescribed the wrong medication or the wrong dose for your condition.
Have you or a loved one ever been misdiagnosed by your doctor? If you’re a medical professional, how do you ensure that misdiagnoses happen as rarely as possible? Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments.
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