According to a report released by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence, an estimated 371,000 patients die, and 424,000 are permanently disabled each year because they are incorrectly diagnosed across a range of care settings.
Overall, the paper suggests medical providers misdiagnose diseases roughly 11% of the time. However, it's important to highlight that different conditions are missed at different rates. For example, only 1.5% of heart attacks are misdiagnosed, but spinal abscesses are wrongly identified 62% of the time.
To hear from the people themselves, TikToker @mrsedwardsplusafew asked her followers who have gone through something similar to share their experiences. Continue scrolling to read about them and don't miss the conversation we had with Dr. Iris Gorfinkel!
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#21
my intracranial pressure was so high i woke up blind in one eye…went to the hospital and they said it was ANXIETY and sent me home…ended up having brain surgery 3 months later
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#22
bacterial meningitis as just a headache
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#23
told i was having anxiety attacks in a&e and to leave me be… 2 hours later i was intubated in icu and diagnosed with epilepsy
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#24
my daughter had chicken pox and was unable to walk, talk, or wee and had a temp of 40. she lost all feeling from waist down. I took her to a&e 3 times. was told it was flu
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#25
The gynaecologist told my mum I was in labour when I twisted my ovary
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#26
Daughter was 7 and was constantly passing urine, drinking & sleeping. 1st, 2nd & 3rd doc said viral and I was paranoid . By 4th visit she was blue lighted to hospital & diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
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#27
Diagnosed with growing pains until I was 20…. It was actually Ehlers Danlos
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#28
One of my best friends was literally dying in front of us. She was told by nurses she should get her act together, cause her daughter needed her. She couldn't keep food or drinks down
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#29
Was diagnosed in 2008 with depression and anxiety, but I didn't find that out until 2023. In 2008 I had filled out a form and been told, "have you ever tried not to think like that?" and left ashamed
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#30
"it's just an ear infection" no actually it was a cholesteatoma that eroded 2/3 of my hearing bones & was eroding my mastoid/facial bones & that's why i couldn't hear out of my left ear for 6 years
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#31
Migraines - turns out my brain was being squashed by excess fluid and also starting to fall out of my skull
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#32
“Nothing wrong with my gynecologically” while spending 6 months with the most severe, unbearable, completely debilitating pelvic pain (I had just had Endo excision surgery and the 6 months post-op was CONSTANT looking for answers). Was about to go septic when I was finally admitted for a bladder infection; and uterine infection, both that likely had since my surgery. I almost died despite going to the ER and my private doctors probably 80 times in 6 months.
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#33
I went to a&e for really bad hip pain took X-rays etc was told it was pulled muscle ! It was bone cancer and what they were looking at was my bone being eaten ! It’s not curable
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#34
had a crushed spinal cord. apparently the pain and inability to walk was anxiety
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#35
A mass in my stomach and intestine that had put many holes in my intestines and executive liver disfunction being diagnosed as constipation
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#36
‘It’s just an ear infection it’ll clear up’ it was meningitis.
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#37
Was told I was just a paranoid mum because my daughter would sweat like crazy, she had a super rare heart disorder that would of k*lled her left untreated she's just had open heart sugary [intimacy]
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