| No treatment with normal nursing care is a safeguard against wrong diagnosis and against deliberate misdiagnosis for an evil purpose. |
| After years of misdiagnosis, doctors finally realize she had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. |
| But many of the anecdotal tales of misdiagnosis and malpractice had little to do with seasonal pressures and resource shortages. |
| A misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in an adolescent could result in failure to initiate appropriate treatment for an affective illness at a critical life stage. |
| Errors related to the misdiagnosis of fractures accounted for the third largest amount of dollars paid out to settle malpractice claims. |
| Initially, patients are often treated with anticoagulants because of the misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism. |
