October 19, 2007
"Five Commonly Misdiagnosed Diseases". With this observation worth remembering:
Dr. Mark Graber, chief of medicine at the Veteran's Administration in Northpoint, New York, says the single most common cause of misdiagnosis is a doctor's failure to consider other possibilities after an initial diagnosis is reached. "It's called premature closing--the minute they come up with a diagnosis, they don't think about a better solution," he says.