10-04-2017 08:50 via theguardian.com

Should I ask for a second opinion?

New research has shown that more than a fifth of patients who do ask for one discover that their first diagnosis was incorrectHow do you know your doctor has made the right diagnosis? According to new research, more than 20% of patients sent for a second opinion will indeed have had an incorrect first diagnosis. And if this study, in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, sounds scary, then it only echoes a report in 2015 from the National Academy of Medicine in the US saying that most
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