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My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed.

April 7, 2021

Henigson J. Washington Post. March 26, 2021.

Misdiagnoses can persist due to heuristics, discontinuities, and implicit bias. This news story chronicles the experience of a patient misdiagnosed with a brain tumor. His condition was eventually discovered through communication with a physician whose experience with similar situations allowed the physician to identify the problem.

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