The hidden costs of delayed diagnosis and diagnostic ambiguity
One of the most damaging patterns in health care is also one of the most accepted: delayed diagnosis.
What stays with me is not only the diagnosis that came too late. It is everything that happened before it. The months. Sometimes the years. The symptoms that were minimized, misread, or explained away. The patient who was still struggling, but without enough clarity to move care forward. The family trying to function …
The hidden costs of delayed diagnosis and diagnostic ambiguity
