Incorrect diagnosis following clinical or technical diagnostic procedures

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A group of physicians wrongly diagnosing the case of a pregnant woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1803.

A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Diagnosis : dispatches from the frontlines of medical mysteries / Lisa Sanders.

ADHD does not exist : the truth about attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder / Richard Saul, MD.

A case of a "psychotic" Navaho Indian male / Donald P. Jewell.

De morbis false recteque dignoscendis : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ... / auctor Julius Meyer.

I was number 87 : a deaf woman's ordeal of misdiagnosis, institutionalization, and abuse / Anne M. Bolander and Adair N. Renning.

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Diagnostic Errors

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Diagnosis : dispatches from the frontlines of medical mysteries / Lisa Sanders.

ADHD does not exist : the truth about attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder / Richard Saul, MD.

A case of a "psychotic" Navaho Indian male / Donald P. Jewell.

De morbis false recteque dignoscendis : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ... / auctor Julius Meyer.

I was number 87 : a deaf woman's ordeal of misdiagnosis, institutionalization, and abuse / Anne M. Bolander and Adair N. Renning.

Diagnostic Errors

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Diagnosis : dispatches from the frontlines of medical mysteries / Lisa Sanders.

ADHD does not exist : the truth about attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder / Richard Saul, MD.

A case of a "psychotic" Navaho Indian male / Donald P. Jewell.

De morbis false recteque dignoscendis : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ... / auctor Julius Meyer.

I was number 87 : a deaf woman's ordeal of misdiagnosis, institutionalization, and abuse / Anne M. Bolander and Adair N. Renning.

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