WRONG CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS -LIFE AT RISK
Dr.T.V.Rao MD It is really a life threatening situation hunting many, Never to forget everyone a potential patient and subject to many medical vagaries, as we observe Doctors today pay least attention to the clinical problem and clinical examination, it is true experience they do least attention and immediately try investigating through unneeded expensive investigations and insist on most available investigations in the medical laboratory market, as person belonging to laboratory Medicine, most laboratory tests are done by very ill qualified technicians, and truly sad state of affairs in many teaching hospitals too,. Most diagnoses are relatively straightforward and don’t require a second opinion, and many examinations, Just check how much the Doctor paid attention to investigations he was written, every laboratory investigation done without a basic understanding is counterproductive. Patients should trust their doctor in determining whether a second opinion is desirable.Wrong diagnoses can lead to the wrong treatment, harming patients, the study stated, referring to a recent report by the National Academy of Medicine.When your doctor gives a diagnosis of a complicated disease, it often pays to get an independent second look, according to a study from Mayo Clinic published,Second medical opinions given at the famed medical institute most often result in a refined or totally new diagnosis, the study found.
In 21 percent of cases, Mayo Clinic doctors gave a completely different diagnosis than the original. The diagnosis was refined or extended in 66 percent of cases. Think about our own circumstances in India the conflict of interest is a growing problem, In the remainder, the diagnosis was unaltered.In general, patients seeking a second opinion should look for an academic medical center close to them, While second opinions add to medical bills, they can prevent even most costly consequences of a misdiagnosis. A misdiagnosis ruins the health of many in India,like many other countries, Even the developed countries dependent on good clinical examination and trained physician must come to near diagnosis and patients not to be treated as experimental animals So much of what we do depends on taking a history, performing a physical examination, and repeating studies we think might need repeating,”“That is all part of practicing medicine. Simply looking at outside records of laboratory is not practicing medicine. It is a poor proxy of medicine itself. However the patients too want to know how accurate his Doctor in treating them , believing the laboratory medicine is certainly a threat to life without a proper clinical examination
TRY KNOWING THE DIAGNOSIS BEFORE EXPERIMENTED , Read more at
Ref First medical diagnosis often incomplete or plain wrong, study finds,James Naessens, a health care policy researcher at Mayo Clinic, summarizes the results of a study on results of second opinions.
Bradley J. Fikes
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Dr.T.V.Rao MD It is really a life threatening situation hunting many, Never to forget everyone a potential patient and subject to many medical vagaries, as we observe Doctors today pay least attention to the clinical problem and clinical examination, it is true experience they do least attention and immediately try investigating through unneeded expensive investigations and insist on most available investigations in the medical laboratory market, as person belonging to laboratory Medicine, most laboratory tests are done by very ill qualified technicians, and truly sad state of affairs in many teaching hospitals too,. Most diagnoses are relatively straightforward and don’t require a second opinion, and many examinations, Just check how much the Doctor paid attention to investigations he was written, every laboratory investigation done without a basic understanding is counterproductive. Patients should trust their doctor in determining whether a second opinion is desirable.Wrong diagnoses can lead to the wrong treatment, harming patients, the study stated, referring to a recent report by the National Academy of Medicine.When your doctor gives a diagnosis of a complicated disease, it often pays to get an independent second look, according to a study from Mayo Clinic published,Second medical opinions given at the famed medical institute most often result in a refined or totally new diagnosis, the study found.
In 21 percent of cases, Mayo Clinic doctors gave a completely different diagnosis than the original. The diagnosis was refined or extended in 66 percent of cases. Think about our own circumstances in India the conflict of interest is a growing problem, In the remainder, the diagnosis was unaltered.In general, patients seeking a second opinion should look for an academic medical center close to them, While second opinions add to medical bills, they can prevent even most costly consequences of a misdiagnosis. A misdiagnosis ruins the health of many in India,like many other countries, Even the developed countries dependent on good clinical examination and trained physician must come to near diagnosis and patients not to be treated as experimental animals So much of what we do depends on taking a history, performing a physical examination, and repeating studies we think might need repeating,”“That is all part of practicing medicine. Simply looking at outside records of laboratory is not practicing medicine. It is a poor proxy of medicine itself. However the patients too want to know how accurate his Doctor in treating them , believing the laboratory medicine is certainly a threat to life without a proper clinical examination
TRY KNOWING THE DIAGNOSIS BEFORE EXPERIMENTED , Read more at
Ref First medical diagnosis often incomplete or plain wrong, study finds,James Naessens, a health care policy researcher at Mayo Clinic, summarizes the results of a study on results of second opinions.
Bradley J. Fikes
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
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