the most misdiagnosed disease by American doctors

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(1)About 795,000 Americans are misdiagnosed every year
(2)Ah, it was found to be either dead or permanently disabled It is 23 people per 10,000 people, which is larger than the population of Jeonju in Korea
(3)Citing a report released by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Patient Safety and Quality Institute, major U.S. daily newspapers such as USA Today reported that misdiagnosis is estimated to kill 371,000 patients and cause permanent disabilities in the U.S. every year
(4)The report identified stroke, sepsis, pneumonia, thrombotic lung cancer as the top five diseases doctors missThese five diseases accounted for 40 patients with misdiagnosis leading to death and permanent disability SAYS REDUCING DIAGNOSTIC ERROR FOR THESE DISEASE BY 50 CAN REDUCE PERMANENT DISORDERS AND DEATHS BY 150,000 PER YEAR
(5)”A huge number of misdiagnoses is a public health emergency,” the researchers said. “Medical experts almost always misdiagnose a disease when a patient’s symptoms appear to be those of another disease, but the more subtle the patient’s symptoms appear, the more likely they are to misdiagnose.”

Stroke sepsis pneumonia thrombotic lung cancer

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The misdiagnosis rate is 11

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