I’m writing this while confined to my hotel room in Cairo, Egypt. As a healthcare journalist focused on Patient Safety, I wanted to share my

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

(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

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

The next evolution in patient safety requires patients willing to engage and participate with the institutions that deliver healthcare. That

We're overdue for true patient-doctor partnerships. Reporting from the 10th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM) conference....