Unintended Consequences (International Version)
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
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
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
Medicine's Biggest Blind Spot - Women's Bodies
(The following is part of a series of columns entitled Dx IQ from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help you understand how...
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...
Patients Front & Center
The next evolution in patient safety requires patients willing to engage and participate with the institutions that deliver healthcare. That
Patient No More
We're overdue for true patient-doctor partnerships. Reporting from the 10th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM) conference....