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When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests Leana Wen, Joshua Kosowsky
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Step 2: Listen to your intuition. Jul 5, 2011 - When the nurse returned to work the next day, she was shocked to discover that doctors in the ER had stopped the medications, told the woman she was simply having a panic attack and sent her home. Recall that it's the UVBs that stimulate your vitamin D production, so you don't want to block out too many of them. However, despite vitamin D's role in keeping your body ticking along like a well-oiled . When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests [Leana Wen, Joshua Kosowsky] on Amazon.com. May 9, 2008 - Perhaps the doctor knew something or has seen enough to make a conclusion, but in the medical industry, and for legal purposes, you just don't mention a hypothesis without factual information, so the thought stayed private. But this misdiagnosis is doing more than just skewing statistics—it's causing a mountain of unnecessary melanoma surgeries. (Yup, it showed up in my inbox 14 Because she was afraid, and her fear led her to undergo medically unnecessary tests that wound up putting her health at risk. Dec 11, 2012 - How many of you have received the fear-mongering viral emails insisting that you march right up to your doctor and demand that she order a CA-125 test in order to prevent your late-stage ovarian cancer diagnosis? A growing body of research clearly shows the absolute necessity of vitamin D for good health and disease prevention. Mammograms alternating every 3 months, living under the fear that the disease is developing in my body (which she would have had, genetic testing or not, due to her family history), looking at my children and hoping I don't have to leave them too soon. Others and their biases and if you suspect for any reason that you are hyper or hypoglycemic talk to your doctor about it or if he or she won't listen go to Walmart and buy an A1c test for 10 dollars and if a problem is indicated bring the results to another doctor. May 16, 2013 - But I worry that other women with family histories of breast cancer will now rush out to get BRCA testing, and if they test positive, they will follow her lead and undergo potentially unnecessary and possibly dangerous elective surgery.