Dx IQ #5: Do these five things before you see your doctor
Welcome to Diagnosis Team YOU. Getting the right diagnosis is a team effort and you are the principal team member. These five steps are simp
Sep 11, 2019
An easy way to improve healthcare. Today!
Here is something very easy you can do today to help make a big impact on diagnostic error and patient-centered care. Cut, Paste, Sign, Emai
Jul 29, 2019
Dx IQ #4: Teen's brain tumor misdiagnosed as anxiety
Jennifer Mizrahi remembers the first phone call from her daughter telling her, “Chasin is panicking!” He was in a store with his dad and his
Jul 9, 2019
Dx IQ #3: Why Your Child is More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed Than You Are
Why do young children get misdiagnosed more often than adults and what can parents do to fix that? This column, Dx IQ #3, is filled with hea
May 17, 2019
Dx IQ #2: Medicine's Biggest Blind Spot - Women's Bodies
(The following was part of a series of columns entitled Dx IQ from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help you understand how important your role is in getting properly diagnosed. Sadly, SIDM is gone and any links to their website are broken.) What do these stories have in common? A “funny” pain in a neck is ignored until it’s almost too late. A physician treats a patient for anxiety but misses the signs of a failing heart valve. An issue with blood flow to the
Feb 12, 2019
Dx IQ #1: The Most Important Medical Issue Ever
And why you need to know more about it Nothing much happens in healthcare without it but if it’s wrong, little else your doctor does can ever fully be right. And unfortunately, it can go wrong far too often. (The following is #1 in a series of columns entitled Dx IQ from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help you understand how important your role is in getting properly diagnosed. Sadly, SIDM is gone and any links to their website are broken.) Diagnosis It i
Jan 8, 2019
My Family's Medication Error Tales
What I learned from my dad's summer of Parkinson's Psychosis and my son's years of ADHD misdiagnosis Please listen to Episode 13 of the...
Jul 16, 2018
Why Patients Need to Be Storytellers
When we tell stories we help doctors get it right. How do we get doctors to hear us when the average clinic visit is now down to 5 minutes?
Nov 10, 2017
Failure to Diagnose Cancer and Misdiagnosis of Cancer
This is an excerpt from an article on ConsumerSafety.org. To read the full article, please use this link. Common Cancers for Late...
Oct 20, 2017
Your child's learning issues may actually be vision problems.
The upshot: Learning disabilities might actually be easily remedied vision problems. Don't delay. Get their eyes checked annually, start
Oct 18, 2017
