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On his Substack, Jon Rappoport describes a study that found that 88% of patients received a different diagnosis when they got a second opinion. He writes:
From studyfinds.org, April 2017:
A new study finds that nearly 9 in 10 people who go for a second opinion after seeing a doctor are likely to leave with a refined or new diagnosis from what they were first told.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic examined 286 patient records of individuals who had decided to consult a second opinion, hoping to determine whether being referred to a second specialist impacted one’s likelihood of receiving an accurate diagnosis.
The study, conducted using records of patients referred to the Mayo Clinic’s General Internal Medicine Division over a two-year period, ultimately found that when consulting a second opinion, the physician only confirmed the original diagnosis 12 percent of the time.
Among those with updated diagnoses, 66% received a refined or redefined diagnosis, while 21% were diagnosed with something completely different than what their first physician concluded.
Don’t let that “refined or redefined” fool you. A different diagnosis OF ANY KIND most often means a different treatment than originally called for will be given.
“I went to the first doctor and he gave me a prescription for X, but the second doctor wrote a script for Y and said surgery might be necessary, too…”
The article I quoted above considers the second diagnosis correct. But who knows? Maybe the first doctor was right.
Maybe they were both wrong.
What’s at stake here? Millions and millions of medical diagnoses.
And the health and lives of those patients.
Read more here.
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