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A woman pronounced dead wasn't actually dead

Lena Kovadlo @lovebuglena (52166) • Staten Island, New York 15 Jun 23

An elderly woman in a hospital in Ecuador was pronounced dead after she did not respond to resuscitation. A wake was done for her and five hours into it a sound was coming from the coffin. Turns out the woman was actually alive....

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Wrong diagnosis

Porcospino @Porcospino (31365) • Denmark 17 Sep 12

My mother-in-law is ill at the moment. She was feeling ill and visited her doctor. He examined her and told her she wasn't ill, and then he sent her home. Two days later she called my husband. She could hardly speak, she was in...

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practicing medicine without a license

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 5 Mar 10

As if there wasn't enough going on today, the school called this morning and said to pick Cary up, looks like he has pink eye. She said sometimes the pediatricians will prescribe something for that without seeing the child. So...

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wrong diagnosis

intari @intari (190) • Indonesia 11 Feb 10

i have a good friend. her mom get ill. her mom couldn't eat anything cos felt full in her mom's stomach. because very little food and nutrition, her mom's body become drop. my friend bring her mom to sanglah, centre hospital at...

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May have been a wrong diagnosis

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 1 Jul 09

We went to see a specialist who gave my husband a series of tests to see about his stroke and when she saw that his muscles had wasted, she said it was probably ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease and that even though it would be fatal,...

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Do you think a doctor would misdiagnose you to get more money?

Acemat @LikeAdams0921 (130) • United States 10 Apr 09

I have been going to the doctor for my pregnancy every month. Early in my pregnancy, I got a call from a nurse saying I had Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The nurse told me that this was a very common STD that 1 in 2 women have. She...

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Second opinion?

Ellie @ellie26 (4139) • Malaysia 7 Oct 08

When I am not well, I always go and see the doctor. But one doctor's diagnosis is not enough for me, so I always go and get second or even third opinion to confirm the earlier diagnosis. The reason is I need to make sure that I am...

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This is about medical practitioners

pinkytabor @pinkytabor (818) • Philippines 3 Oct 08

For the first time in my life i have known a doctor/e.r. who diagnosed a patient with having a "hole in the heart" without doing the normal diagnostic procedures. This happened to my mother in law here. They did not even take her...

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Back Pain and Wrong diagnosis

aryajayaprakash @aryajayaprakash (1643) • Japan 4 Jul 08

Some six months before I felt pain at the left hip. When told my experience about this pain, some friends advised me to consult a urologist. I did and after scanning they told I have kidney stone. Doctors prescribed some medicince...

What Should I Do?

missberlee @missberlee (467) 19 Nov 07

Right, I need some advice. What should you do when you think a health care professional has got it wrong? I went to the doctor complaining of not being able to sleep, being tearful all the time, not wanting to eat etc. and she...

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