We must make the word “diagnostician” the most prestigious term in medicine
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine has on its website this quote:
- 1 in 10 diagnoses are incorrect.
- Diagnostic error accounts for 40,000-80,000 U.S. deaths annually — somewhere between breast cancer and diabetes.
- Chances are, we will all experience diagnostic error in our lifetime.
The current focus on diagnostic error raises an interesting question: Is this a larger problem in 2017 than in the 1970s and 1980s?
In this post, I …
We must make the word “diagnostician” the most prestigious term in medicine







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