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How to help your doctor to avoid misdiagnosis?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

It is estimated that up to 15% of medical diagnosis are not correct. The root of those misdiagnosis is sometimes the lack of access to relevant information about the patient. Keeping a Personal Health Record in Keyose could improve the medical decision making process.

Moreover , Dr. Groopman advises that there are three important questions that patients should ask their physicians after they receive a diagnosis:

  1. What else could it be?
  2. Could two things be going on at once?
  3. Have you found anything–any laboratory test, or X-ray, or physical finding–that isn’t in sync with your presumption…that contradicts what seems to be the diagnosis.

A really interesting interview to Dr. Groopman about medical misdiagnosis is available via Youtube in part 1 and part 2.