Many of these are becoming nearly impossible to effectively treat. Healthcare-associated infections have dropped somewhat in the past decade, yet there are still about 720,000 infections and 75,000 deaths per year from healthcare-associated infections. The solution to the misdiagnosis problem is complex and has yet to arrive at the clinician-patient interface.ģ) I will get an infection while receiving treatment. The problem is so common that the National Academy of Medicine turned its attention to the problem and published Improving Diagnosis in Health Care in 2015. Misdiagnosis happens far too often at all levels of healthcare. Patients perceive this as the reluctance of the physician community to effectively ‘police their own.’Ģ) I will be misdiagnosed. There are stories of serious patient abuse that appear in the media two of the more notorious examples include a neurosurgeon harming many patients before being stopped and an oncologist who was deliberately misdiagnosing cancer to sell chemotherapy. Trust in our doctors is not as high as it once was. ![]() The questions and our rationale were as follows:ġ) Finding a doctor I can trust. The Patient Council of the Right Care Alliance developed 6 questions to form a national survey of Americans to guide policy makers. Our experiences as patients, caregivers, and users of media sources cause us to worry. Political forces trying to shape and reshape American healthcare without hearing the voice of patients provided the rationale for this work. ![]() SCULLY, CASEY QUINLAN, BILL ADAMS, HELEN HASKELL, and POPPY ARFORD
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