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250K Americans die per year from ER misdiagnosis.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:50 am
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:50 am
Quarter of a million Americans die every year after being misdiagnosed in ER, federal study warns
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A quarter of a million Americans die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room by bungling doctors, a federal report warns.
It found lives are being lost because medics do not know how to recognize some of the lesser-known symptoms of deadly complications like strokes and heart attacks.
For example, a stroke patient who goes to the hospital with dizziness has a 14-fold increased risk of being misdiagnosed compared to more common signs like numbness and speech problems.
Overall, the report estimated that 7.4 million Americans are mistakenly diagnosed during the 130 million yearly trips made to hospital ERs - the equivalent of around 6 percent. Roughly 370,000 patients suffer serious harm as a result.
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Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:51 am to GumboPot
I believe it.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:51 am to GumboPot
Just to think, we have a large number of people who want to remove the standards to get accepted into medical school.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:52 am to GumboPot
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Women and people of color had a 20-30% higher chance of being misdiagnosed
Stopped reading right there
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:52 am to GumboPot
Doesn't surprise me. I got a $110k medivac ride because the ER doctor couldn't read a MRI.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:53 am to GumboPot
As someone who works in Healthcare and in close contact with ERs, I don't disagree with this. ER doctors are often overworked and understaffed. Instead of being able to focus on critical care patients, physicians are often bombarded with colds, STD checks and other illness that a PCP or Urgent Care could better handle.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:53 am to GumboPot
If you are a lawyer that wants to make money, medical malpractice is a slam dunk route.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:54 am to RogerTheShrubber
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ER doctor couldn't read a MRI.
They arent supposed to be able to read one
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:54 am to GumboPot
Maybe quit treating our ERs as primary care and the docs can focus on the more serious cases. 
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:55 am to GumboPot
Also IB4 Lithium
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:55 am to GumboPot
meh. it's an very difficult job and americans are increasingly retarded & unhealthy.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:56 am to LBro337
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As someone who works in Healthcare and in close contact with ERs, I don't disagree with this. ER doctors are often overworked and understaffed. Instead of being able to focus on critical care patients, physicians are often bombarded with colds, STD checks and other illness that a PCP or Urgent Care could better handle.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 10:56 am to GreatLakesTiger24
This ^^^^ x 100000000xx
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:00 am to GumboPot
Emergency medicine is an extremely risky specialty. As an EM physician you are encountering a patient for the first time ever and only have time to spend ~10 minutes in the room. Plus the increase in PA/NPs in ERs is extremely troubling. Midlevels overrunning EM is leading to further mismanagement of resources
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:00 am to GumboPot
Too many crackheads going to the ER.
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:01 am to GumboPot
To be fair…. The ER is a first line triage that deals with all varying types of emergencies.. someone presenting with a headache isn’t immediately going to be seen or diagnosed by Gregory House as having a stroke..
Doesn’t excuse failures but it’s easy to overlook the totality of what’s happening in an ER when looking back at preventable deaths
Doesn’t excuse failures but it’s easy to overlook the totality of what’s happening in an ER when looking back at preventable deaths
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:03 am to ShoeBang
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If you are a lawyer that wants to make money, medical malpractice is a slam dunk route.
Too many state level caps in place?
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:07 am to Cosmo
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Women and people of color had a 20-30% higher chance of being misdiagnosed
Are we supposed to believe this is the case for everything?
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:07 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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Maybe quit treating our ERs as primary care and the docs can focus on the more serious cases.
Uninsured people do this, Obamacare was supposed to fix this
Posted on 12/16/22 at 11:16 am to GumboPot
Now, add malpractice and gross negligence to that number.
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