Shame not on us: Diagnoses and treatments need to be transparent

In Australia recently, a woman successfully sued a hospital for $2.4 million for a series of misdiagnoses that left her quadriplegic. A London woman was recently misdiagnosed four times before doctors discovered she had cervical cancer. A Canadian woman recently filed a $3.5 million lawsuit claiming she was misdiagnosed and ignored when relaying her symptoms Read more… Shame not on us: Diagnoses and treatments need to be transparent originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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