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JAMA Study: Misdiagnosis Poses Significant Potential for Harm 30 Mar 2013 | 03:09 pm
By Evan Falchuk An important study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that misdiagnosis is more common than you might think. According to the study, almost 40% of patients who u...
How Doctors Listen – and Think 11 Feb 2013 | 12:44 am
By Evan Falchuk Do doctors really listen to their patients? A provocative new book, When Doctors Don’t Listen, says it’s all too easy for doctors to rush through the decision-making process – causing...
Doctors: Misdiagnosis Needs Policy Attention 30 Jan 2013 | 09:40 pm
By Evan Falchuk If you study misdiagnosis you realize how often patients get the wrong diagnosis. But what do expert doctors think about how often it happens? And what do they think can be done to a...
Man vs. Machine 29 Jan 2013 | 02:02 am
Do people and computers “think” alike? Not yet. The NY Times reports on how people and computers make a diagnosis. It turns out there’s a doctor named Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, who does a kind of medica...
The Silent Misdiagnosis: Patient Preference 8 Jan 2013 | 10:56 pm
By Evan Falchuk A fascinating study in the BMJ (paywalled – free version here) talks about a kind of misdiagnosis that isn’t widely recognized – failing to figure out exactly what it is the patient wa...
Doctor shortage in Massachusetts “severe” 2 Jan 2013 | 11:30 pm
By Evan Falchuk As the physician work force continues to change, even leading healthcare states like Massachusetts are having serious problems having enough doctors. According to a study by the Massa...
It’s Time for Real Quality in Health Care 29 Nov 2012 | 09:39 pm
In Australia last week, an eminent doctor showed me this quote about health care quality: So I am called eccentric for saying in public: that hospitals, if they wish to be sure of improvement, (1) mus...
Elementary, Dear Watson 17 Oct 2012 | 09:19 pm
By Evan Falchuk Watson, IBM’s powerful artificial intelligence system gained huge notoriety on Jeopardy! by defeating the show’s best-ever human player, is an important achievement. It’s leading to t...
Nurse Talk Radio – Healthcare’s “Car Talk” – Talks Misdiagnosis 14 Oct 2012 | 12:19 am
By Evan Falchuk Thanks to Casey Hobbs and Shayne Mason for a terrific interview broadcast today on Nurse Talk Radio. We had a lively conversation about how to make sure you get the right diagnosis. Y...
A Reality Check 11 Oct 2012 | 04:45 pm
By Evan Falchuk Thanks to the American Benefits Council for the opportunity to present alongside Ray Goldberg of Marsh & McLennan Companies on the problem of misdiagnosis at the fall Policy Board of D...
