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- ... about 15 to 30 percent of the time, the diagnoses at time of death are wrong—and 5 to 10 percent of the time, that diagnostic error probably helped kill the patient.
thenewgreen · 3237 days ago · link ·
he remarked that surgery was much like detective work: You get a bunch of clues, must decide which to follow, and eventually commit to a decisive line of action.
-Well, that's a bit disconcerting from the patients standpoint. I realize that medicine isn't an exact science at times, but when going under the knife, it's nice to pretend it is.