"I was misdiagnosed a couple times, and if another person was to get misdiagnosed they might never go into the hospital, just because they would think it would go away."
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Testing for consciousness in brain-injured patients is heavily subjective, and can be misdiagnosed as a result: An estimated 43 percent of patients who qualify as "vegetative" are misdiagnosed, as D'Arcy pointed out.
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These people are sometimes even misdiagnosed as having thalidomide syndrome.
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She was misdiagnosed with hyperventilation syndrome in her early twenties.
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She was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis but continued to decline.
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His parents later found another psychiatrist, who misdiagnosed bipolar disorder.
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But depression among the elderly is often misdiagnosed and undertreated.
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"Being misdiagnosed kind of makes you question everything," Bliss said.
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And those fractures, he said, are often misdiagnosed as abuse.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist front-runner, misdiagnosed the problem.
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Others argue that the prince has misdiagnosed Britain's supposed architectural illness.
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Parkinson's is occasionally misdiagnosed because there is no test for it.
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He misdiagnosed the child as having bipolar and attention deficit disorders.
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He was initially misdiagnosed with depression and prescribed Wellbutrin, an antidepressant.
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On Thursday, Kanye explained that he had been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Some patients are being misdiagnosed as having bronchitis or a viral infection.
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Occasionally, White House doctors have misdiagnosed a president's heart and vascular problems.
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Diarrhoea, a common camp ailment, was routinely misdiagnosed in the first few months.
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Back in 2008, researchers worried that type 3c had been under- and misdiagnosed.
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Well, if you're concerned you've been misdiagnosed, perhaps show your doctor McGovern's article.
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When it comes to hair loss and Black women, we are often misdiagnosed.
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Miller-Berry says her daughter was initially misdiagnosed with asthma and sleep apnea.
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Women who have been misdiagnosed with PCOS said the experience could be jarring.
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Many patients have been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, Dalmau said.
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Fevers, chills, and joint pain can be easily misdiagnosed as flu or malaria.
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We are consistently disbelieved and misdiagnosed because doctors cannot see past our fatness.
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Someone with a blood sugar problem could sound incoherent, for instance, and be misdiagnosed.
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Chronic pain sufferers are often misdiagnosed and misunderstood, or simply thought to be dramatic.
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Women who were misdiagnosed and sent home wouldn't have been counted in the analysis.
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None of them were likely due to the commonly misdiagnosed issue of sleep disorders.
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But what she wouldn't know for several months is that she had been misdiagnosed.
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Because the disease starts with unexplained seizures, many patients are misdiagnosed as being epileptic.
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"People were getting misdiagnosed for 22017 years, 20 years, it was horrible," she said.
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After years of being misdiagnosed, Mr. Pozzi died from a brain tumor in 2004.
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Millions of people are misdiagnosed every year, which presents another opportunity for Karius' test.
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He was misdiagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma and told he had six months to live.
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" Months after announcing that he had bipolar disorder, West told Trump that he was "misdiagnosed.
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All of which means that most cases of Zika are missed, and many are misdiagnosed.
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In the process, researchers found that some candidates had actually been misdiagnosed with other diseases.
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She died in part because of miscommunication, and she was misdiagnosed for over a year.
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Too often, Smith said, conditions related to attention issues are overdiagnosed or misdiagnosed in children.
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Prosecutors said he intentionally misdiagnosed serious eye conditions in patients to inflate his Medicare bills.
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Or worse, hearing that a VA ER doctor misdiagnosed a bleeding veteran's common pregnancy complication.
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He is opening up to President Donald J. Trump about apparently being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Pejkovic's journey is incredible ... she was misdiagnosed TWICE with a middle ear infection back in 2012.
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In my teens, I was misdiagnosed with something called hyperventilation syndrome and prescribed very addictive tranquilizers.
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Doctors misdiagnosed appendicitis, among other illnesses, gave him the wrong medicines and performed three unnecessary surgeries.
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When I was 10, my younger sister was misdiagnosed at the local field clinic in Mandaree.
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The concern is less that hackers might cause patients to be misdiagnosed, although that potential exists.
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Because the symptoms of coronavirus are very similar to the flu, it could easily be misdiagnosed.
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He had a rare neurological disease, late-onset cerebellar cortical atrophy, that was misdiagnosed as Parkinson's.
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Agardh said celiac disease is often misdiagnosed in young children because the symptoms can be unclear.
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Over all, the system did make mistakes: It misdiagnosed 14 cases that the humans got right.
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And the symptoms of this rare genetic disorder are often misdiagnosed, or go undiagnosed for years.
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In an email, she told me that she was misdiagnosed as bipolar at a very young age.
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In most cases dogs don't make it through the first day because they're euthanized, because they're misdiagnosed.
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Because they were diagnosed solely on symptoms, as opposed to undergoing actual spirometry tests, they were misdiagnosed.
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A couple years of antipsychotics later, it turns out that my doctors had failed and misdiagnosed me.
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Misdiagnosed and mistreated for years, "93/11 seeped into every aspect of my life," Hovitz tells PEOPLE.
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Initially misdiagnosed with depression, Hamilton was prescribed an anti-depressant, but it only made her feel worse.
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And because this disorder is so unknown, those that do seek treatment are often misdiagnosed, he says.
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Fuller hopes her daughter's story can help raise awareness about OMS and how it can be misdiagnosed.
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A thorough examination of the scan shows that Taylor's lump has been misdiagnosed for her entire life.
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One big concern, he said, is that symptoms caused by these types of agents could be misdiagnosed.
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I was tested, misdiagnosed, and tested some more before my doctors finally had an idea: mitochondrial disease.
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The family had to quickly learn how to navigate the medical system after Cash was initially misdiagnosed.
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The amoebae's feeding causes meningoencephalitis — or swelling of the brain and nearby tissues — and is often misdiagnosed.
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But an ankle injury that was misdiagnosed and a subsequent operation kept him out until late August.
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Misdiagnosed with altitude sickness and dehydration, I was told to leave the elevation as quickly as possible.
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She was initially misdiagnosed as having an enlarged bladder, was treated and sent home with only aspirin.
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Another was left with years of chronic pain after prison doctors misdiagnosed a problem with his pancreas.
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For at least the preceding 10 years I had been struggling with chronic symptoms that went misdiagnosed.
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Raymond Orta, 32 and Belinda Garcia, 33, two of Zamora-Quezada's former patients said the doctor misdiagnosed them.
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Three large observational studies indicate that there are approximately 12 million American adults per year who are misdiagnosed.
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"I was misdiagnosed for over three decades and left untreated for Lyme disease," Sims told the report's authors.
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This 8-year old child was misdiagnosed with a common cold and was not even tested for influenza.
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This means that refugees with pneumonitis may have been misdiagnosed with bacterial pneumonia and didn't receive proper treatment.
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And because Zika, dengue and chikungunya all produce fever, joint pain and rashes, Zika cases are often misdiagnosed.
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If not for the astute observations of her Boston neurologist, Maggie, too, would have been misdiagnosed in perpetuity.
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Dr. Zuckerman said the research could contribute to understanding a time when mental illnesses were stigmatized or misdiagnosed.
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But the researchers say they found no evidence confirming frequent complaints that the condition is overdiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
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For too long, traumatic brain injury ("TBI") a low-profile chronic condition, has been unrecognized, misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
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After his death, many of his achievements were clouded by accusations that he'd misdiagnosed many of his patients.
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Girls and women with autism are often misdiagnosed or overlooked because we tend to hide our autistic traits.
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Of the seven children who arrived within a fortnight, nearly all were initially misdiagnosed with mumps or flu.
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"I hoped that it was a mistake and she was misdiagnosed," Verge says of her mom's gutting health news.
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Stroke is the sixth leading cause of death in children and most children who suffer strokes are often misdiagnosed.
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We still have no idea how many adults have autism, whether undiagnosed or, even worse, misdiagnosed and poorly treated.
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And, in the absolute worst-case scenario, reports NPR, that misdiagnosed "brain-dead" patient may regain some brain function.
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" She shared that her husband had been misdiagnosed with the flu, and that this would be "a long recovery.
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"No bill can ever bring back my wife," said Michael Dreifuss, whose spouse died of misdiagnosed cancer in 2008.
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A few years ago, I fell ill and was misdiagnosed, treated and sent home after a lengthy hospital stay.
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In about 2 percent of cases, the researchers found another breathing issue that may have been misdiagnosed as asthma.
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Fetus-in-fetu is sometimes misdiagnosed as a teratoma, a tumor that may contain bones, muscle tissue and hair.
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About 60 percent of narcolepsy patients are initially misdiagnosed, often with depression but sometimes with schizophrenia, as I had feared.
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Younger people with heart failure are frequently misdiagnosed as having asthma, since both can cause shortness of breath, she said.
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The notice of claim alleges that, on at least 83 opportunities, medical staff at Hacienda HealthCare workers misdiagnosed her pregnancy.
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The client, it turns out, had been misdiagnosed for years, because her perception of the attacks had not been considered.
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The patients had been not misdiagnosed but overdiagnosed; that is, cancers were identified that would never have produced clinical symptoms.
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As a result, they are seven times more likely to be misdiagnosed in the middle of having a heart attack.
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Trump has misdiagnosed both problems, opting for policies that impose higher costs on the US than the gains he seeks.
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Prosecutors say a second patient died of squamous cell carcinoma after Levy misdiagnosed the patient with another form of carcinoma.
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Cook was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996, something he says made him view the world in a different way.
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He had misdiagnosed the boy as having bipolar and attention deficit disorders which led to the prescription, the BBC reports.
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Sometimes, emotional contamination can even be misdiagnosed as psychosis if a therapist hasn't heard of it before, Hevia tells me.
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But if you've ever given a doctor attitude, next time you might want to think twice — or risk being misdiagnosed.
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A rash may develop, especially if patients were initially misdiagnosed with strep throat and started on a course of antibiotics.
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Thyroid disorders can affect a wide range of bodily functions and cause an array of confusing and often misdiagnosed symptoms.
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Long-term conditions like endometriosis, which affects one in 10 women of reproductive age, are often misdiagnosed and go untreated.
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While doctors know to watch for Lyme disease, STARI has been less common and is often misdiagnosed, the report said.
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And the doctors, since they'd never seen measles before, misdiagnosed her repeatedly, sending her home, where she became sicker and sicker.
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And that means that misdiagnosed pain patients and people who have both addiction and pain are often just left in agony.
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Many cancers don't reveal themselves for a decade or more, and many serious respiratory symptoms tend to be misdiagnosed as asthma.
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I'd been misdiagnosed so often over the years, so it felt great to finally know what was going on with me.
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WATCH FULL EVENT HERE Approximately 6900 million Americans live with a rare disease, and many more may go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
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As noted in a new International Journal of Infectious Diseases case study, the infection was initially misdiagnosed as a brain tumor.
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Until this year, however, few doctors had even heard of Zika, and it was often misdiagnosed as dengue or other diseases.
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It is often connected to (or misdiagnosed as) another mental illnesses, which means it can get lost in other, bigger discussions.
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It's a tragically common mix-up made by many doctors, with 173 percent of all bipolar patients initially misdiagnosed this way.
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Typical symptoms of the disorder include excessive tiredness and muscle or joint pain, which are often misdiagnosed as signs of aging.
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For instance, acid-suppressive medications or antibiotics could have been prescribed to infants because they had allergy symptoms that were misdiagnosed.
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It was initially misdiagnosed as an epidemic of malaria, and some victims were given quinine with needles that were not sterilized.
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Whatever perceived economic ills are largely misdiagnosed by politicians who claim they can "create" growth in industries that are already growing.
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My first stroke was almost misdiagnosed because the emergency room doctors assumed I was too young to be having a stroke.
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But as they grew up to be toddlers and adolescents without problems breathing, it was obvious that they had been misdiagnosed.
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Difficult to diagnose (and frequently misdiagnosed), rheumatic diseases in their mildest forms can cause discomfort and some difficulty with everyday tasks.
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"One of the problems is this is a very misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed condition," said Todd Walburg, an attorney for the Norris&apos.
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Actor and songwriter Kris Kristofferson's Lyme disease diagnosis made headlines a few months ago when he was originally misdiagnosed as having Alzheimer's.
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Dengue, the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, infects about 390 million annually but is often badly recorded and misdiagnosed, health experts say.
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Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood My hair was always thick, so when I started losing it when I was 29, I was really upset.
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An Iowa man was awarded $12.25 million on Friday after he was misdiagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to remove his prostate.
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Wasn't it more likely that most of his patients had been misdiagnosed or that their cancers had stopped growing for other reasons?
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Add to that list conjunctivitis—like pink eye from elementary school—and syphilis finds another way to lurk, misdiagnosed, in the body.
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Because it can be hard to diagnose, many endometriosis sufferers are frequently misdiagnosed or have their symptoms dismissed — even by medical professionals.
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Before Neura launched, co-founder and chief technology officer Triinu Magi's diabetes was misdiagnosed and she was prescribed medication that didn't work.
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In that case, you can say, 'Well, they were misdiagnosed,' but there was no reason to know that they have bipolar disorder.
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" Hassid told us that people with adverse reactions to gluten "are often misdiagnosed with [irritable bowel syndrome or] IBS and Crohn's disease.
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These studies have not been particularly helpful in understanding why so many women and girls with autism are misdiagnosed, or simply overlooked.
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With no accurate diagnostics on the market, Lyme patients are often misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis, or irritable bowel syndrome.
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An overconfident cardiologist misdiagnosed her with Bell's palsy and treated her with the steroid prednisone, sending her blood pressure through the roof.
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One stock that he thinks the market has misdiagnosed is PPG Industries, the specialty chemical company that makes proprietary glass, paints and coatings.
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The group originally supported the bill, but withdraw that because of an exemption 'for "medically futile' pregnancies, which are often misdiagnosed," Wilson said.
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Dr. Javanbakht says that while he personally hasn't seen sleep disorders misdiagnosed as bipolar, sleep can certainly play an element in bipolar disorder.
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"Human cases may be getting misdiagnosed, especially if there are low numbers of infectious larvae ingested and the disease is minimal," Walden said.
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Sure, the idea of being misdiagnosed with cancer, as an individual is terrifying, but there are much bigger implications to keep in mind.
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Many times, patients with XLPDR are misdiagnosed, like Alex was; identifying the gene will help doctors properly diagnose XLPDR patients in the future.
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With diagnostic tools inadequate for many of these disorders, countless numbers of rare diseases remain undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and intervention opportunities are lost.
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His daughter Sarah, a state representative in Ohio, said the cause was pancreatic cancer, a disease Mr. LaTourette said Capitol doctors had misdiagnosed.
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But a full third of those cases might be misdiagnosed, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Among other things, Kanye said on Thursday that he has been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and insisted he is simply "sleep-deprived" instead.
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Hypothyroidism — low hormone levels — in particular is often misdiagnosed, its symptoms resembling those of other diseases or mistaken for "normal" effects of aging.
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The condition is often misdiagnosed if the person reports no birds in the home, and many doctors don't think to ask about bedding.
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I was not receiving the right treatment, and had been misdiagnosed, which resulted in being placed on medication that was actually worsening my symptoms.
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But that's the problem with the disease, so many of the symptoms are similar to conditions that are less serious and it's often misdiagnosed.
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I'm not the only one who's ever been misdiagnosed and sent to AA. Since I've told my story, dozens have contacted me with theirs.
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Barrientos, referring to the president's call for an increase in ICE officers, argued Trump had fundamentally misdiagnosed the root problems that cause gang activity.
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Dr. A.J. Marsden, an assistant professor of human services and psychology at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, says that depression, specifically, is often misdiagnosed.
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The doctors also noted that they're unsure how common feather-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis is because "the disease is often unrecognized or misdiagnosed," they wrote.
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The Marine from Rochester died in February after he was misdiagnosed with the flu when he ended up suffering from a flesh-eating bacteria.
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Tumors are often misdiagnosed or even blamed on witchcraft, and 80 percent go undetected until they have spread to lymph nodes or distant organs.
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But there's a third type that's been around for a while you may not have even heard of—and some doctors think it's being misdiagnosed.
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Endometriosis can be difficult to diagnose and treat, and people can experience frustration from years of being misdiagnosed or not being given the right care.
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick is on sale in bookstores and online now.
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Although I still receive a lot of referrals for teenagers that are misdiagnosed with ADD the pendulum has swung over the last couple of years.
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When they adopted him, they were aware of his condition, but did not understand how severe it was, because he had been misdiagnosed in Ghana.
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The symptoms of SMA are similar to some other diseases, so when an infant first starts showing signs of developmental problems, it is often misdiagnosed.
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After two hospitals misdiagnosed him, he "came very close to dying," said Musk in "Elon Musk," before being properly treated in the nick of time.
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It's why researchers at Wayne State University found that strokes in young adults are often misdiagnosed; instead, alcohol, ear infections, or vertigo get the blame.
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Many were discharged with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI), or were survivors of military sexual trauma (MST).
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About six months later, another case of CSF made headlines when People reported on Greg Phillpotts, a man who also had a misdiagnosed runny nose.
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A handful of researchers over the past two decades have examined these patients, concluding that about 233 percent of people in vegetative states are misdiagnosed.
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For now, the scanners are primarily used to check for pneumonia, which is a major killer of children in poor countries and is frequently misdiagnosed.
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But when nearly half of those who could participate are misdiagnosed as vegetative when they are actually minimally conscious, this vulnerable group is further marginalized.
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Like Simpson, I was also misdiagnosed and by the time the torsion was detected, the tube was so damaged that it had to be removed.
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Army Secretary Mark Esper said last week that the Army gives out waivers only for mental health issues that have been resolved or were misdiagnosed.
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In the ensuing days, Ms. Carcamo said, Jostin's illness was misdiagnosed by doctors at three local, private health clinics in a poor sector of Choloma.
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" (During the actual meeting on Thursday, West said that he was "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder.) Baldwin's Trump said to himself, "This could be good for me.
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The rashes are red with pimple-like bumps or scales, which are sometimes misdiagnosed as either mosquito or bed bug bites, probably because of the itching.
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Many women with autism are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because past research has focused on men and boys with autism, who behave differently than women with autism.
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Dr. Doolan suggests heading to your GP any time you have the above foot symptoms, because warts and athlete's foot are often misdiagnosed or left untreated.
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The "Flashing Lights" rapper has claimed that he was "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder and has been open about the fact that he is off his medication.
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About 100 patients filed lawsuits against Ethicon claiming that the parent company's researchers were aware of the risk that uterine tumors could be misdiagnosed as fibroids.
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It wasn't until the woman suffered a stroke, and had CT scans done of her brain, that the brain tumor was diagnosed—or more accurately, misdiagnosed.
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They face accusations that they were never ill in the first place; that their condition was misdiagnosed; and that their recovery is therefore fake, he said.
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Physicians have historically misdiagnosed it as the more generic cyclic vomiting syndrome, which has no identifiable cause or, as in Queen's case, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).
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In more than 40 posts so far, players have detailed a wide range of experiences, including struggles with motivation or stuttering, financial hardships and misdiagnosed injuries.
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My migraine attacks (misdiagnosed as sinus headaches) began around puberty, usually occurred three times a month, each lasting for three days, and didn't end until menopause.
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"It's possible that there are cases that were misdiagnosed as another species of the worm, californiensis, because people just assume that it will be," Bradbury said.
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A lot of the women I interviewed who had stories of being dismissed or misdiagnosed had experience with female physicians and didn't see a huge difference.
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If the swing toward Trump among whites really was about racial and cultural anxieties — as some good research suggests — then they will have misdiagnosed the problem.
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It wasn't until July 2017, however, that Boyle's doctor told the mother of one she was misdiagnosed and did not actually have cancer, according to The Telegraph.
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Sick Note: NETFLIX ORIGINAL This black comedy series follows a slacker misdiagnosed with cancer whose lies lead him into an absurd web of secrets, blackmail and suspicion.
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Throughout the next five years, Weyer saw a variety of doctors and was misdiagnosed multiple times before a sleep specialist determined she had KLS in November 2016.
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In a world as susceptible to fashions, fads and misdiagnosed talent as the New York visual-arts scene in the 603s, Cecily Brown made an unusual wunderkind.
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At first, he was misdiagnosed, according to the news outlet, but was then given the devastating news: He had bone cancer with a tumor in his spine.
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None that Dr. Sharp knew of were recorded in Brazil, but the symptoms, he said, are easily misdiagnosed as dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is much more common.
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As irregular sleeping patterns can be linked to lifestyle changes, stress, or in Moser's case, typical teenage behaviour, it's easy to see how it get easily misdiagnosed.
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FOUR-MONTH OLD BABY UNDERGOES OPEN-HEART SURGERY AFTER SYMPTOMS ARE MISDIAGNOSED MULTIPLE TIMES The Craigmont High School student began feeling sick, which led to the subsequent surgery.
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My niece Beatrice, who had gone to the village to visit her grandmother, succumbed to malaria that was initially misdiagnosed as a cold by an unskilled health worker.
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Osbourne, now 33, spoke to Yahoo Lifestyle for an interview published on Wednesday, where he revealed that his dad, now 70, was misdiagnosed with MS in the '90s.
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During his meeting with Trump, West told the president that he had been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and discussed his fondness for the Make America Great Again hat.
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In addition, the "Flashing Lights" rapper has claimed that he was "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder and has been open about the fact that he is off his medication.
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Among those misdiagnosed with asthma, 12 people, or 2 percent of the participants, had serious conditions other than asthma, like heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, the study found.
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However, it's a good idea to check in with your doctor to confirm this is a yeast infection, because many other conditions are frequently misdiagnosed as yeast infections.
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Progressives, having misdiagnosed the causes of income inequality in America, propose heavy-handed policies that merely vindicate a rigid ideology that demands greater centralized control of the economy.
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Dr. Robert Morris Levy was charged Tuesday in the deaths of three patients who authorities say he misdiagnosed and whose records he later altered to conceal his mistakes.
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I wonder if, because she wants to believe that Leonard is part of the roughly 20 percent of people who are misdiagnosed, she's ascribing meaning to random movements.
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Greg Rikaart Greg Rikaart took to Instagram on March 25 and said he had been initially misdiagnosed with pneumonia before learning he had tested positive for COVID-19.
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In his interview, Dr. Wang said that he had misdiagnosed his symptoms as those of flu, and that he had waited days before checking himself into a hospital.
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A Texas family claims they lost custody of their children after doctors misdiagnosed their sick infant as being abused — a diagnosis that later turned out to be incorrect.
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After Greg, who is HIV positive, was first misdiagnosed, his doctor, who specializes in HIV-positive patients, then sent him for a colonoscopy instead of a rectal exam.
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He went misdiagnosed for a few years, Reynolds says, before the right doctor finally figured out what was wrong and he doesn't want that happening to other people.
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While this approach is sometimes dicey—as you could get misdiagnosed since a doctor is physically examining you—it does encourage more people to at least seek diagnosis.
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Trent Williams says Washington Redskins doctors misdiagnosed his cancer more than FIVE YEARS ago ... and the 7-time Pro Bowl left tackle says it nearly cost him his life.
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Women are oftentimes misdiagnosed, resulting in delayed treatment — and costs have been rising steadily: the estimated tab attributed to lost productivity and other factors was $215 billion in 403.
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He boasted of his financial success, praised Trump, and told the room that he had been misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder, when he was in fact merely sleep-deprived.
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"Nobody disputes that this kind of behavior occurs," she said, but without more research on the Munchausen diagnoses, it's difficult to know how often Munchausen is misdiagnosed, as well.
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Assuming the wealthiest kids were not being misdiagnosed, the authors calculate that the differences mean a lot of cases of eye disease are being missed in less-wealthy children.
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While in the Oval Office, West delivered a 10-minute monologue on a range of topics, including what he said was misdiagnosed bipolar disorder and why he supports Trump.
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He had played football in high school, and the pain and stiffness in his back that signalled the onset of the disease had been misdiagnosed as a bad disk.
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I was sent to a cardiologist and eventually a neurologist and was misdiagnosed several times before finally going to the Cleveland Clinic about a year and a half ago.
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The last example is particularly resonant to me, as my father died of mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos, after his chest X-rays were misdiagnosed as lung cancer.
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Attorney David Zoll, who is representing those suing Jenkins, said that it's not clear how many patients she saw and that others might not know they were misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's.
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"I was initially misdiagnosed and a very dear friend of mine said, 'You have to go get a second opinion on your pathology,' and that came back cancerous," Wilson added.
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Like all tick-borne diseases, he says, the CDC's numbers are probably much lower than the actual number of infections that occur each year, because many go unsolved or misdiagnosed.
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What's more, he said he hasn't played a game with the Redskins this year because he now distrusts the team's medical staff after they allegedly misdiagnosed the tumor for years.
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A woman has been left "unnecessarily traumatized" after she was misdiagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer that forced her to undergo a grueling amount of treatments and surgery.
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In the Gerard Barrett-directed project, a New York Post journalist (Moretz) suffering from a rare autoimmune disorder is repeatedly misdiagnosed following a series of violent outbursts and severe amnesia.
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Prior studies have shown that patients in the U.S. with limited English proficiency are more likely to remain hospitalized longer, to be misdiagnosed and to be subjected to medical errors.
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Multiple studies show that women with symptoms of cardiac events are far more likely to be misdiagnosed and sent home from the ER, or to get delayed care, than men.
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She was misdiagnosed with several conditions before the cost of genome sequencing fell to a point where her parents were able to fundraise the $8,000 needed to get it done.
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A common thread in many of these stories is that these were healthy, active women who experienced symptoms and in some cases were misdiagnosed before finding out they had cancer.
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In his interview with Jiemian, published on Friday, Dr. Wang said he had misdiagnosed himself as having flu, and that he had waited days before checking himself into a hospital.
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Goodwin, who lives in central England, was initially misdiagnosed at the age of 8 and was told he would not survive when doctors realised he had cancer a year later.
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The first Saw movie introduced the anonymous and terrifying Jigsaw killer, and by the end of the movie we learn that it's John Kramer, a misdiagnosed patient dying of terminal cancer.
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But the researchers behind this new study say their findings upturn this popular narrative, while also suggesting that many people's health problems brought on by single-gene mutations are getting misdiagnosed.
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Since there's a wide range of symptoms associated with pelvic floor dysfunction, the condition is often misdiagnosed as anything from a bladder infection to endometriosis to, as in Mamet's case, psychosis.
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The deceased patient was initially misdiagnosed with a hemorrhage not related to fitusiran, for which he was administered factor VIII concentrate, a blood clotter, several times a day, the company said.
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Misunderstanding of how to interpret food sensitization tests is widespread among physicians and patients, Stukus said, often leading to children being misdiagnosed with food allergies and put on unnecessarily restricted diets.
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The hope is that through the power of crowdsourcing, users around the world can get help with their undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or uncured medical conditions, not dissimilarly from El Moussa's fateful connection.
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The study has some limitations, including that the data was analyzed only up to age 18, and there was no way to confirm that patients really had infections versus being misdiagnosed.
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Ransom said he and co-authors submitted the man's drawing with the hope that other physicians may better recognize this type of epilepsy, which is often misdiagnosed as migraine with aura.
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When I saw doctors about my difficulties, I was told off for wasting their time or misdiagnosed with a host of things, including generalized anxiety disorder and (my favorite) bad luck.
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According to Berg, because women with PTSD often don't show the same set of behaviors as men with PTSD, they're often misdiagnosed with things like borderline personality disorder or postpartum depression.
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Owens had fractured his left femur in the accident — although the injury was originally misdiagnosed as pulled muscles — and for more than a decade he would live almost entirely without golf.
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I felt like I was ahead of the curve; I think in the next decade, more people will be diagnosed with PMDD instead of being misdiagnosed as bipolar, like they often are.
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Read these stories next: How A Mammogram Failed To Detect This Woman's Breast Cancer The Frustrating Reason This Woman's Cancer Was Misdiagnosed The Health Issue Young Women Aren't Paying Enough Attention To
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"Some of these patients were clearly misdiagnosed to begin with, and they had other conditions other than asthma, and some did have asthma but it was in remission," Aaron added by email.
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Those who were misdiagnosed were less likely to have had airflow limitation tests when they were originally diagnosed, compared with participants who had their original asthma diagnosis confirmed in the current study.
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This inequality is the subject of Feministing editor Maya Dusenbery's first book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 6).
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The show focuses on Grint's character, Daniel, an insurance rep and compulsive liar who is misdiagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to keep the charade going with his friends and family.
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It is one thing getting a face incorrectly recognized in an image uploaded to Facebook, but a totally different matter if cancer is misdiagnosed by an A.I., which could very easily happen.
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Some of the online doctors misdiagnosed conditions like syphilis, others prescribed unnecessary meds, and two of the sites used doctors who aren't licensed to practice in the state the patient was located.
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Under legislation passed by the Senate and the Assembly on Wednesday, patients who are misdiagnosed would have two and a half years from the date they discover the error to file suit.
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They misdiagnosed the individual they were dealing with, assuming that Mr. Trump would "grow in office" and that they, the "adults in the room," would be able to control and contain him.
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And there are growing reports within China of people who say their relatives were infected with or died from the coronavirus but were misdiagnosed or not correctly listed as victims of it.
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Due to its rarity—about one in 40,000 people have it, according to the Kennedy's Disease Association—it's a difficult disease to peg and is often misdiagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
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Months after candidly discussing his bipolar disorder diagnosis and referencing it on his album, Kanye West told Donald Trump that he was "misdiagnosed" during a meeting at the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon.
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"If you're misdiagnosed with cow's milk allergy, then you are at increased risk of having poor growth parameters compared to your peers who are on cow's milk or a fortified formula," he noted.
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AS came first after Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, chief scientist for medical sieve radiology at IBM Research, pursued the field for Watson's first imaging application when her father was misdiagnosed over a decade ago.
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He claimed during the Oval Office meeting that he had been "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder, but people close to him told People magazine that he is not taking medications prescribed by a psychiatrist.
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Ms. Kosarian and others cite city estimates that half of the homeless people in San Francisco have substance abuse issues, and say the crisis is being misdiagnosed as purely a lack of housing.
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After nearly a decade on medication, O'Connor revealed in 2013 that she had been misdiagnosed with the illness and in fact suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, which she attributes to her abused past.
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To me, one of the most striking findings in your book is that in the UK, women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack, according to Leeds University researchers.
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Because most clinicians didn't follow recommendations to repeat blood pressure screenings during initial visits and schedule follow-up appointments, it's also possible that this influenced the proportion of kids with misdiagnosed hypertension, they add.
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Despite being far more vulnerable, women are women are often misdiagnosed due to cultural stereotypes, and there's a huge gap in research on which kinds of treatments work best for which kinds of people.
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Conservatives who have come to embrace economic nationalism have misdiagnosed the problem, and therefore fail to see why bullying trade partners and indiscriminately cracking down on immigration won't bring back jobs and increase wages.
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I've read a lot and heard from doctors, teachers and parents who have said that kids can be misdiagnosed with all types of things, like behavioral or learning disorders, just because they can't see.
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This approach has resulted in patients being treated with antibiotics that they do not need and getting misdiagnosed, said Peter Chin-Hong, a doctor who treats patients with infectious diseases at UC San Francisco.
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Schuette told CNN that part of his investigation will look at the potential that there were more deaths caused by Legionnaires that were misdiagnosed or improperly diagnosed as hospital officials tried to contain the crisis.
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"One thing I have been wondering recently is if people misdiagnosed is that the hope for the future is all economic," said Zuckerberg, who sounds a bit like a man reborn in this politicized age.
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"One thing I have been wondering recently is if people misdiagnosed it that the hope for the future is all economic," said Zuckerberg, who sounds a bit like a man reborn in this politicized age.
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Since occupational clinics are equipped to treat common worker ailments, but not to test workers' blood for beryllium specifically, it is impossible to know how many cases were misdiagnosed as sarcoidosis or other pulmonary diseases.
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Misdiagnoses and missed diagnoses may be one reason for their dissatisfaction: According to health care journal BMJ Quality & Safety, 12 million American adults — around 5 percent of the US adult population — are misdiagnosed every year.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: "A Diagnosis" After attempting suicide in season 3 of the musical comedy, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) is told by her psychiatrist that she was previously misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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But hip pain can be hard to diagnose, and that may lead to inappropriate treatment or unnecessary surgery if gluteal tendinopathy is misdiagnosed as a lumbar spine issue or hip joint osteoarthritis, the authors write.
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" Suchilin wrote in a Facebook post on May 30, two days after he was taken off the plane, that the doctors in Spain misdiagnosed him, and said that he just had "an ordinary beach infection.
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Studies show there's a gender gap in areas as varied as how long patients wait in the ER to receive an analgesic for acute abdominal pain, to who gets misdiagnosed and dismissed during heart attacks.
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Leslie, in a recent video, noted that celery juice won't cure cancer, despite the recent fad perpetuated by so-called wellness influencers who claim to have helped tens of thousands of people with misdiagnosed ailments.
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Another study found that many textbooks don't address the differences in the way coronary heart disease presents in women, opting to show men only, which could contribute to women being misdiagnosed at higher rates than men.
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Months after telling the world that he suffered from bipolar disorder — and even referencing it on the cover his latest album, Ye, back in June — Kanye West has said that he was "misdiagnosed" with the condition.
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"When I was first experiencing this like seizures essentially I'd go to doctors and try to recount what happened, how I felt and I was initially completely misdiagnosed with migraines," Jack told TechCrunch of his experience.
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The majority of these conditions are also frequently misdiagnosed or missed entirely, which leaves young women—many of whom develop symptoms in their 22008s or 225s—to bear the cost when they can least afford it.
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Numerous studies have shown, for example, that the youngest children in a classroom are more likely to be diagnosed with A.D.H.D. Children of color are also at higher risk of being misdiagnosed than their white peers.
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As a result, the American Academy of Nursing developed an initiative called "Have You Ever Served in the Military?" to help those outside the V.A. system to assess and appropriately respond to these often misdiagnosed conditions.
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But Pakistan has a learning crisis that afflicts its schoolchildren despite much debate and increase in funding for education because policy interventions by the government and foreign donors misdiagnosed what is keeping children out of school.
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This type has lent its name to a little-known skin disease — lichen sclerosus — that typically manifests as white crusts on genital tissues and is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed before it wreaks havoc on people's lives.
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For example, if not for Kathy, a determined nurse who browbeats a man with a tear in his aorta to return to the emergency room that has twice misdiagnosed him, the patient surely would have died.
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During the bizarre meeting, West claimed he had been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was told by a "neuropsychologist that works with the athletes in the NBA and NFL" that he was just suffering from sleep deprivation.
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"And it's possible that even if climate change is quite as bad as people say it is, that maybe we misdiagnosed the problem, maybe it's all methane emissions," he said, according to a recording of the session.
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During a meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, West — who avidly supports and voted for the president in the 2016 election — claimed during a lengthy, televised discussion that he was "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder.
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After his father, a TV reporter, died of a misdiagnosed virus when Moore was just 3 years old, his mother, Joy, moved the family from Baltimore to a rough Bronx, New York, neighborhood to be with her family.
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These fungi are also some of the most misdiagnosed infections in intensive care units in the UK according to Denning, which, when coupled with late diagnosis and the presence of severe underlying diseases, is what makes them deadly.
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In her book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, released in April, author Maya Dusenberry painted a pretty bleak portrait of women's experience dealing with healthcare professionals.
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There is also compelling evidence of generations of lost girls and women, struggling to cope with being different to those around them, who were (or are) undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or diagnosed far later in life than their male counterparts.
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Washington Redskins left tackle Trent Williams ended his silence on Thursday and said he had a soft-tissue cancer attached to his skull that went misdiagnosed for close to six years, leading to his dispute with the team.
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Since Zika was found in Africa in 1947 and detected in spots in Asia in the 1950s, scientists suspect it has circulated silently on those continents for decades, probably misdiagnosed as mild dengue or other rash-causing fevers.
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Despite how common it can be, though, it often gets misdiagnosed or overlooked entirely, in part because for about a hundred years, catatonia was considered to be a type of schizophrenia—not a distinct syndrome of its own.
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Doctors at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine last year described the case of a 45-year-old man who developed akathisia just days after he was put on an antidepressant but was misdiagnosed as having panic attacks.
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In medical lore, the term "Yentl syndrome" has come to describe what happens when women present to their doctors with symptoms that differ from men's — they often get misdiagnosed, mistreated, or told the pain is all in their heads.
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" (Months after telling the world that he had bipolar disorder — and even referencing it on the cover his album Ye back in June — West said in October that he was "misdiagnosed" with the condition.) "We feel soooo much love.
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On Thursday afternoon, during a meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, West — who avidly supports and voted for the president in the 2016 election — claimed during a lengthy, televised discussion that he was "misdiagnosed" with bipolar disorder.
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But he missed the next season with shoulder surgery and nearly four months of last season with an ankle injury that was misdiagnosed after he fouled a ball off his leg at the end of last year's spring training.
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Like many sex workers I know, I first started advertising on Craigslist and Backpage due to urgent financial need, exacerbated by the fact that I had a long-misdiagnosed genetic condition that made other employment options impossible to maintain.
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In another case that won public's attention, a young woman from the Arctic region of Murmansk complained to Putin during his live phone-in that she had developed an advanced case of cancer after being misdiagnosed in a local hospital.
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Because people don't know how supervised learning models function (even, in many cases, the people who built them), it could lead to financial crashes, people being denied loans for unknown reasons or even patients being misdiagnosed for treatments and disease.
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Interviews with more than a dozen current and former female service members — spanning different branches, decades, and deployments — revealed striking similarities in the way they were brushed off, misdiagnosed, and provided the wrong treatments by US military doctors around the world.
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In a 2017 study from the Journal of Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, doctors cited a 63-year-old woman who reported itching and burning in both eyes, which was initially misdiagnosed as Blepharitis, or a common inflammation of the eyelid.
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For those who missed it, misdiagnosed me, and the so called Federal "Doctor" who took me off medication cold turkey and the other ER "Doctor Hollywood" who told me to go home and take it easy for 10 days – STOP practicing!
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For those who missed it, misdiagnosed me, and the so called federal 'doctor' who took me off medication cold turkey and the other ER 'doctor Hollywood' who told me to go home and take it easy for 10 days — STOP practicing!
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This finding suggests that other illnesses with chronic symptoms and a female preponderance, such as fibromyalgia, chronic-fatigue syndrome, and depression, may be misdiagnosed as chronic Lyme disease, and that, as a result, many women may not be receiving appropriate treatment.
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Growing up with misdiagnosed PTSD, my episodes when triggered were so severe that you could argue it looked like I was possessed, crying and screaming, slamming things, and my parents never stopped trying to help me find a diagnosis and recovery.
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Why it matters: 50% of patients infected with influenza may have had prolonged illness if they were initially misdiagnosed as flu-free and didn't receive the proper treatment, according to the abstract presented Sunday at the ASM Microbe 2018 conference.
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Because the symptoms begin slowly and are initially similar to those of flu, malaria, shigellosis, typhoid fever or yellow fever — and because there is no rapid diagnostic test suitable for rural clinics — Lassa fever is often misdiagnosed, which delays responses.
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When they detail the physical decline of his messy final years, caused by a degenerative illness misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease, it is painful to read — in part because he was by then firmly trapped with Carlotta inside their mutually destructive relationship.
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Bring a sensible-seeming man along to your appointment or to the E.R., Maya Dusenbery, an editor at the Web site Feministing, suggests in " Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick " (HarperCollins).
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And they have all been underestimated at various points in this primary, their manifest campaign warts — Mr. Biden's gaffe-making, Ms. Warren's fraught history with Native American ancestry, Mr. Sanders's competition from Ms. Warren for liberal hearts and minds — misdiagnosed as politically lethal.
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Reuters documented the case of a 9-year-old girl, Eliannys Vivas, who died of diphtheria earlier this year after being misdiagnosed with asthma, in part because there were no instruments to examine her throat, and shuttled around several run-down hospitals.
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The infusion takes four hours, which works just fine, since we have a lot to chat about, and David is no longer the 12-year-old who used to sit by the phone waiting for her gastroenterologist to call to tell her she'd been misdiagnosed.
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Doctors harbor preconceptions about what a patient with endometriosis looks like: female (though some trans and cis men are also affected), white and upper-middle class (black women are likely to find themselves misdiagnosed with sexually transmitted pelvic inflammatory disease instead), sensitive and ambitious.
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Reuters documented the case of a 9-year-old girl, Eliannys Vivas, who died of diphtheria earlier this year after being misdiagnosed with asthma, in part because there were no instruments to examine her throat and because she was shuttled around several run-down hospitals.
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As for Bipolar Disorder, approximately 70 percent of patients with bipolar disorder are misdiagnosed with unipolar depression or in some cases, even with ADHD Essentially, Marsden says many therapists and doctors are diagnosing patients with depression who do not suffer from it at all.
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This woman's case was admittedly extreme, but Dr. Devi told me that "60 percent of women go through menopause-related cognitive impairment" that, when serious enough to be brought to medical attention, is too often misdiagnosed as "mild cognitive impairment," a precursor to dementia.
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Dr. Mark Clemens, an associate professor of plastic surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, told BuzzFeed News he has seen patients with breast implant–associated ALCL who were misdiagnosed with other cancers, an issue he blamed on a lack of education.
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His character David Haller, a former mental patient who's discovering his condition might be misdiagnosed superpowers, is delivering a lecture to another character — a sort of "what have we learned so far?" catch-up of all of the information David has gathered about the season's central mystery.
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WATCH: Utah Couple Learns Their 3 Children Could Die by Age 11 From Rare Disease Andrej Spec, a co-author of the report, while the man's cat had feline tularemia, she was misdiagnosed with feline leukemia by a veterinarian who did not perform proper laboratory testing.
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Watch: The Pageant Celebrating Girls with Disabilities There are an estimated 250,000 people with ME in the UK, 25,000 of whom are believed to be children, although this number could be higher due to the fact that many cases are believed to be misdiagnosed or undiagnosed.
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My insurance covers all of my psychotherapy treatments, but even with my above-average coverage, I've had my insurance deny functional brain imaging scans ordered by my neurologist for suspected undiagnosed neurodevelopmental delays because my symptoms present and are misdiagnosed as mental health related, instead of physiological.
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" He's used a story about having his case of malaria in 2000 misdiagnosed by doctors as reason to "take expert advice with a grain of salt," and warned that "if we over-allocate medical resources to corona, it will come at expense of treating other illnesses.
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One woman from the San Francisco Bay Area, who did not want to be named, told BuzzFeed News she was misdiagnosed with and treated for inflammatory breast cancer, an aggressive cancer that blocks the lymph vessels in the skin, causing the breast to become swollen and red.
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"Since most don&apost observe this, they come to believe it doesn&apost exist," Harris said, adding that people with DID are often misdiagnosed or mistaken for drug abusers, and that on average it can take a person with DID 10 years to be diagnosed correctly.
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According to the BBC, the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV—a professional organization of U.K. doctors and health care professionals—has issued draft guidelines for "how best to spot and treat MG." The infection can often be missed or misdiagnosed by both patients and doctors, doctors say.
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"The athletic training staff, not the coaching staff — they basically misdiagnosed the situation," Loh said at a news conference at the university in College Park, Md. Earlier in the day, Loh and Damon Evans, Maryland's athletic director, said they had visited McNair's parents in Baltimore and apologized to them.
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The first deaths in Angola were misdiagnosed as food poisoning; the global emergency vaccine stockpile was depleted before even one city was fully protected; and diagnostic laboratories were so far away that it was months before the scope of the outbreak was clear and a worldwide alarm was raised.
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That I might have a pretty common case of misdiagnosed Endometriosis, a condition that was ruled out after a recommended laparoscopic surgery — a procedure that did determine I had a sister condition called Endometritis, which is basically an angry, inflamed uterine lining, which I treated in the weeks following with antibiotics.
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Yet China's disinformation campaign is ongoing, US officials warn, pointing to comments that were made on Sunday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhoa in which he suggested the virus started in the US dating back to September 2019 and that those with the flu at that time were misdiagnosed.
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She stated that new music will be coming "very soon," and cited the reason for her absence as a long, initially misdiagnosed illness from which she's now recovering: "I have to get completely better so I can tour & actually promote it," she said via Twitter, referring to the release of new tunes.
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The 48-year-old is opening up about what led to her deliberate fall, how her misdiagnosed mental illness led her to become a Las Vegas call girl and how she put her life back together after her secret was revealed to the world on the next installment of Oprah: Where Are They Now?.
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Approximately 176 million women globally are affected by the disease, with an estimated one of ten women suffering from it in the US. Despite those numbers, though, there is still a serious lack awareness surrounding the condition—in part because it's often misdiagnosed or overlooked by doctors who refuse to believe women's pain isn't all in their heads.
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Later that day, the doctors sent them an email with the name of the extremely rare neurodegenerative condition: SPG50 According to the National Organization of Rare Diseases, "a gene with a disease-causing (pathogenic) mutation must be inherited from each parent to result in manifestations of symptoms" and many patients may be misdiagnosed as having cerebral palsy.
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" Boy was 'viewed as an asset,' lawsuit says The lawsuit, which was filed in a Texas court last week, alleges that F.C.B. was misdiagnosed while in custody, and that staff at Shiloh forced him to take the psychotropic drugs Lexapro and Risperdal without parental consent and that he was detained for nearly a year "without legal authority or justification.
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Other common causes of vulvodynia that may be misdiagnosed as yeast infections include contact dermatitis (aka a rash caused by something your vulva was in contact with), bacterial vaginosis, sexually transmitted infections (like trichomoniasis), dermatological causes, a reaction to decreased estrogen during menopause, a response to a foreign body (like forgetting a tampon), or a combination of some of these factors.
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Mr. West, for his part, praised the president for stopping "the war" with North Korea (there was none), said Mr. Trump "solved one of the biggest problems" on "Day 1" (North Korea again), spoke of being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder (it was sleep deprivation), and said that Mr. Trump had given him a "Superman cape" to be a force for good.
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And blaming victims does little good, especially when many have no way of knowing they are at risk: The newborn with the heart defect, the high school football star who collapses on the field, the middle-aged runner who drops dead on his morning jog, the vast number of women whose condition is still misdiagnosed by doctors who have yet to recognize that the symptoms of heart disease differ by gender — such people are not responsible for their condition, which can be as silent and lethal as any cancer.
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