“Newman-Toker said federal spending on research to prevent diagnosis doesn’t match the severity of the problem. He said the society estimates federal agencies spend less than $10 million on research to prevent misdiagnosis, “several orders of magnitude” less than what is needed.”
First quoted sentence has “to prevent diagnosis”, which presumably ought to read “to prevent misdiagnosis” like the second sentence. (Of course, if diagnosis was prevented, that would certainly reduce the rate of misdiagnosis!)
My neighbor kept having lower chest pains. He ended up in the ER but they could not find anything so they sent him home. Then a few days later it came back again and his wife rushed him back to the ER. They then admitted him and over the course of a day or two did all the heart tests, and told him for a man his age his blockages were very minimal. So home again and then it occurred again — at some point he had spoken with his chiropractor, who told him that pain sounded like gall bladder – so this time they mentioned this possibility to the ER – who poo pahed that possibility — and again he was sent home in early evening. By 4 in the next AM he was back in the ER in extreme pain, and they mentioned gall bladder and the nurse rolled her eyes. At this point, the wife became unglued, which prompted the ER doc to say well we can certainly run an ultrasound to check the gall bladder. so they did, and it was full of gangrene he spent 10 days in the hospital and that nurse smartly never stopped by his bed!
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“Newman-Toker said federal spending on research to prevent diagnosis doesn’t match the severity of the problem. He said the society estimates federal agencies spend less than $10 million on research to prevent misdiagnosis, “several orders of magnitude” less than what is needed.”
First quoted sentence has “to prevent diagnosis”, which presumably ought to read “to prevent misdiagnosis” like the second sentence. (Of course, if diagnosis was prevented, that would certainly reduce the rate of misdiagnosis!)
Thank you for pointing out the error.
My neighbor kept having lower chest pains. He ended up in the ER but they could not find anything so they sent him home. Then a few days later it came back again and his wife rushed him back to the ER. They then admitted him and over the course of a day or two did all the heart tests, and told him for a man his age his blockages were very minimal. So home again and then it occurred again — at some point he had spoken with his chiropractor, who told him that pain sounded like gall bladder – so this time they mentioned this possibility to the ER – who poo pahed that possibility — and again he was sent home in early evening. By 4 in the next AM he was back in the ER in extreme pain, and they mentioned gall bladder and the nurse rolled her eyes. At this point, the wife became unglued, which prompted the ER doc to say well we can certainly run an ultrasound to check the gall bladder. so they did, and it was full of gangrene he spent 10 days in the hospital and that nurse smartly never stopped by his bed!