Top five things to do before you see your doctor
Welcome to Diagnosis Team YOU. Getting the right diagnosis is a team effort and you are the principal team member. These five steps are simp
An easy way to improve healthcare. Today!
Here is something very easy you can do today to help make a big impact on diagnostic error and patient-centered care. Cut, Paste, Sign, Emai
Teen's brain tumor misdiagnosed as anxiety
Jennifer Mizrahi remembers the first phone call from her daughter telling her, “Chasin is panicking!” He was in a store with his dad and his
Why Your Child is More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed Than You Are
Why do young children get misdiagnosed more often than adults and what can parents do to fix that? This column, Dx IQ #3, is filled with hea
Medicine's Biggest Blind Spot - Women's Bodies
(The following is part of a series of columns entitled Dx IQ from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help you understand how...
The Most Important Medical Issue Ever
And why you need to know more about it Nothing much happens in healthcare without it but if it’s wrong, little else your doctor does can...
My Family's Medication Error Tales
What I learned from my dad's summer of Parkinson's Psychosis and my son's years of ADHD misdiagnosis Please listen to Episode 13 of the...
Why Patients Need to Be Storytellers
When we tell stories we help doctors get it right. How do we get doctors to hear us when the average clinic visit is now down to 5 minutes?
Failure to Diagnose Cancer and Misdiagnosis of Cancer
This is an excerpt from an article on ConsumerSafety.org. To read the full article, please use this link. Common Cancers for Late...
Your child's learning issues may actually be vision problems.
The upshot: Learning disabilities might actually be easily remedied vision problems. Don't delay. Get their eyes checked annually, start
