Diagnosis is a journey. Over the past seven months, this column has taken you through the various steps of that journey to help you get an accurate diagnosis. Last month we focused on how to protect yourself against medical testing’s dirty little secret. Each month we’ve shown you where the pitfalls may be, how to be proactive, and how to partner with the healthcare team to reduce your risk. If you want an overall look at how misdiagnosis happens, click here.] This article wa

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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

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

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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