While psychiatric manifestations are common in patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS), to our knowledge, there are no reported cases of CS...
Abstract: Misdiagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) can occur when different case definitions are used by...
There is/are no substantive data on the frequency at which ME/CFS is a misdiagnosis – that is where a patient with a serious illness is...
transcript: Academic consultants for The Open University: Dr Jitka Vseteckova, Senior Lecturer, School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care and Dr...
https://bjgplife.com/delicate-diagnosis-avoiding-harms-in-difficult-disputed-and-desired-diagnoses/ BJGP LONG READ ‘Delicate diagnosis’: avoiding...
Abstract Objective There are reports of functional neurological disorder (FND) developing after anaesthesia, though separating any aetiological...
Abstract Background: Prior studies have demonstrated that Lyme disease is frequently over-diagnosed. However, few studies describe which...
Poll of more than 2,000 people found 26% of respondents were told they had something else More than a quarter of people with Parkinson’s disease...
Chronic Lyme disease may be a misdiagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome CFS, also sometimes known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, is itself a...
A terminally ill mother-of-two has criticised her GP practice after being told she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome which turned out to be stage 4...
“I guess it’s my time,” the 50-year-old man said quietly as his wife drove him home from his doctor’s office in southwest Houston. “No,” his wife...
Hi, Mods. Please feel free to move to a better place, wasn't sure where to post this. Thank you. [MEDIA]...
Thought I'd seen this posted on a different thread but I can't find it, so creating a new thread for it. I fell down the rabbit hole, like Alice,...
Medscape: Ignoring Patient Input Tied to Diagnostic Error Patients' views are not often included in records of diagnostic errors, but new data...
Historically, we have seen several diseases maligned as psychosomatic, with devastating costs to individuals: MS, Parkinson's, epilepsy, TB,...
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Living with a disability is one thing, acquiring a disability is another but what about living with a misdiagnosis and no supports for your...
well that's a new name! Liverpool Echo article "A young hairdresser who “loved life” said he lost everything after ME robbed him of his ability...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/27/597159133/how-bad-medicine-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms?utm_campaign=storyshare&...
This one is new to me: "Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome". According to the Mayo Clinic website, CECS is "an exercise-induced muscle and...
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