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When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests Leana Wen, Joshua Kosowsky
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Danielle is a 20-year old college student at the New England Conservatory. Feb 9, 2013 - By Leana Wen MD,. Read Susanne Sommers books on cancer. Many readings are false positivers with PSA tests. She had it herself and in the last instance had she listened to Doctors she would be dead. These are critically important to treat and require careful observation to prevent progression. Among the reasons these tests are not recommended is that they can often find some abnormality, which although benign, could lead to further unnecessary tests and treatment, he explained. More damage to men with prostate cancer than the cancer itself and the person would have outlived the cancer, but they don't. An excerpt from When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Simply Verbal reports don't always clarify sufficiently. Feb 6, 2014 - Two of those doctors—Joshua Kosowsky and Leana Wen—have written a compelling new book about a root cause of the problem: When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Bolinger up · How to Be Famous for 15 Minutes · Why haven't we found a cure for cancer? May 21, 2014 - One is a simple test for occult fecal blood (that's the one Dr Micozzi's promotional piece hypes as the one “you can do yourself at home”). At Brigham & Women's & Massachusetts General, & a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School as well as Co-Author of the new book, When Doctor's Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnosis and Unnecessary Tests. In addition, doctors order scans out of fear they might miss a serious condition and be sued for misdiagnosis, he noted. This being our lot (and Every time that care of a patient is handed off to someone else (be they MD or RN), there is a risk of forgetting to follow through with a test, procedure, or work up. Mar 17, 2014 - Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker "Most people with headaches don't need any testing," he said. Jul 11, 2012 - When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests We don't even know. Workout Wednesday with Cynthia Newsome. Apr 28, 2014 - The need to record data has supplanted our ability to listen to the patient, causing anguish for patients, physicians, and nurses alike.