A mistaken diagnosis of heart attack may also make it harder for a person to get life or health insurance.
Delayed or mistaken diagnosis can be traumatic for individuals and families; for example, misdiagnosis can lead to medications that worsen behavior.
How about prefinancing your own autopsy - perhaps with the additional incentive that your heirs would benefit from any malpractice awards for mistaken diagnoses?
It then turns the files over to a company that examines the patient's labs tests, prescriptions and medical procedures for evidence of mistaken diagnoses or inappropriate treatment.
Hospitals, afraid of being sued over mistaken diagnoses, increasingly forgo autopsies, experts say.
A growing number of missed or mistaken diagnoses are going unchecked, depriving doctors of a learning tool.
Roland was not dead; it was a mistaken diagnosis, the physician has been beheaded, but the old King is insane and no one knows what to do.
Experts attributed the original mistaken diagnosis to several factors.
In their hospital they had conferences on clinical anatomy, analysing mistaken diagnoses and treatment, and reporting on new methods.
I broke into his office and found Him there, but all he would say was that he had made a mistaken diagnosis.