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A physician associate in an understaffed emergency department diagnosed a patient’s severe back pain as sciatica after a CT scan read as normal. Five days later, a different clinician identified a perirectal abscess that had already progressed to require multiple surgeries.

A Medicare cohort study found a median delay of 494 days between incident heart failure diagnosis and ATTR-CM diagnosis, with female sex, aortic stenosis, COPD, coronary artery disease, diabetes, and hypertension associated with longer diagnostic delays.

“A lot of our individuals are young, so we’ve seen this cancer being diagnosed during or after pregnancy, and often it gets labeled as hemorrhoids … but in hindsight, probably should have warranted attention earlier.” – Pashtoon Kasi, MD

The updated “Ritter Rules” reinforce that early recognition and multidisciplinary collaboration are critical to surviving aortic dissection.

“Women and girls are too often suffering in silence, being left out of the ADHD narrative.” — Attoe & Climie, Journal of Attention Disorders, 2023

In light of the ongoing legal challenges faced by Lehigh Valley Health Network over alleged misdiagnoses of medical child abuse, it is imperative for healthcare professionals to rigorously assess their diagnostic approaches, ensuring that they are grounded in evidence and free from bias.