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How to get more accurate medical diagnoses
Most people, at one time or another, have received an incorrect diagnosis or seen a doctor who's been stumped by their symptoms. Often, it doesn't much matter, since the symptoms go away on their own. But misdiagnoses can cost lives: an estimated 40,000 to 80,000 hospital deaths every year, according to a March paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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