[Vaquero]

Don’t get me started about the medical profession.

Lately I regard them lower than lawyers...and my feelings about lawyers are..

[Gay State Conservative]

Has it ever occurred to anyone that there are certain diseases/conditions that are difficult enough to diagnose that even competent,skilled physicians are known to misdiagnose them? This info is gathered from *malpractice cases* and *autopsies*.

Has anyone ever considered the motives of malpractice lawyers....like John Edwards,for example? All they want to do is get the jurors weeping and when that happens they know their teenage daughters are about to get a Ferrari.

And as for autopsies....clinical physicians can,and should,learn much from pathologists.But the rate of voluntary autopsies in this country,which used to be quite high,is now abysmally low.

Medicine is a **very** inexact science.Anyone who thinks it's guaranteed that even a competent physician is going to correctly diagnose their unusual or difficult to diagnose problem is crazy.

But a malpractice lawyer will ***never*** tell you that.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Sound strange? How could a doctor miss a heart attack? Bonow says the big and obvious attack -- the one where someone clutches his or her chest and falls to the floor, the one Bonow calls "the Hollywood heart attack" -- isn't always so clear. Sometimes the only signs of a heart attack are a sense of fullness in the chest, nausea and a general sense of not feeling well.

They told me I had acid reflux. It took 6 weeks to finally diagnose my heart attack.

[I'm ALL Right!]

MS is VERY commonly misdiagnosed, as is syringomyelia. (See my profile)

[CougarGA7]

Just remember, one goal in life is to NOT have a disease named after you. Because if you do it means you were the first one with it and they didn’t know what the heck it was.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic is a fascinoma.

[SunkenCiv]

[CAluvdubya]

Actually, Nancy Keelan, a registered nurse, says, demand more tests

Under Hillarycare (or Arnoldcare), this will become an impossibility. The gubmint won't allow it!

[VOA]

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