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Monday, March 06, 2006

Food for thought

Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong - New York Times (free with registration)

Autopsies show that in 20% of the time doctors misdiagnose the disease that causes death, a level that hasn't really changed much from the 1930s. There are tools out there to help prevent these kinds of misdiagnoses, but no oeconomic incentives to really pursue such costly tools.

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