misdiagnosis

You shouldn’t take one doctor’s word for it when they diagnosis an illness, as 88% of patients who seek a second opinion receive a new or revised diagnosis. Another 21% of patients receive a “distinctly different” diagnosis, meaning the first doctor’s diagnosis wasn’t even in the ballpark, a recent study says. [1]

(ANTIMEDIA) Depression, which affects 6.7 percent of the United States population, is a notoriously difficult disorder to diagnose.