Misdiagnoses Aren’t Killing Or Disabling 800,000 People A Year

As a society, we absolutely love a story where healthcare is the villain. There’s a regular parade of news where some research study seems to indicate that healthcare professionals are destroying lives. Every once in a while, the myth that <a href="https://gidmk.medium.com/medical-error-is-not-the-third-leading-cause-of-deaths-ff13c71851b" rel="noopener">medical error is the third leading cause of death</a> rears its head, despite the obvious fact that this cannot possibly be true. This week, a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-misdiagnose-lower-risk-deaths-2023-7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">new spate of headlines</a> has popped up with a very similar vibe. If you believe the news, missed diagnoses — or misdiagnosis, where doctors fail to diagnose people correctly in a timely manner — is causing a truly astonishing amount of suffering in the United States. According to a <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/19/health/diagnosis-error-study/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">recently published piece of research</a>, nearly 800,000 people either die or are permanently disabled each year due to misdiagnosis in the US. <a href="https://gidmk.medium.com/misdiagnoses-arent-killing-or-disabling-800-000-people-a-year-de987c11bc74">Read More</a>