00:00 An estimated 795,000 Americans suffer permanent disability or death as a result of medical
00:07 misdiagnosis.
00:08 Business Insider reports this number could be even higher, reaching a potential 1.02
00:15 million people.
00:16 According to the study from researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director
00:20 of the Johns Hopkins Diagnostic Excellence Center, Dr. David Newman-Toker says, "Diagnostic
00:26 errors are, by a wide margin, the most under-resourced public health crisis we face."
00:33 The top five misdiagnosed diseases, representing 38.7 percent of all misdiagnosed cases, include
00:40 stroke, sepsis, pneumonia, venous thromboembolism, and lung cancer.
00:46 The misdiagnosis often occurs when patients exhibit symptoms other than those most commonly
00:51 associated with the disease.
00:54 The site reiterates patient awareness and further questioning, in addition to ongoing
00:58 research, can be our best defense against this health crisis.
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