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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told me it was anxiety and vitamin deficiency causing my paralysed legs. turns out I have a neurological disorder
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#44
Needed tooth pulled- turned out it wasn’t a tooth issue- was Trigeminal Neuralgia- so missing a back tooth for nothing
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#45
FIBROMYALGIA!!! Because that’s what they diagnose you when they don’t know what on earth is going on with you.
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