Half of internal medicine residents missed bioterror diagnoses
There is not nearly enough emphasis on this during training: “The doctors took a pretest, completed an online course and then took another test.
On the pretest, half the doctors misdiagnosed botulism; 84 percent misdiagnosed plague. A case of routine chickenpox was misdiagnosed by 42 percent of the doctors as smallpox.”
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