{"id":1760,"date":"2014-08-08T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2014-08-08T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:37:46","slug":"the-battle-against-misdiagnosis-american-doctors-make-the-wrong-call-more-than-12-million-times-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Against Misdiagnosis:  American doctors make the wrong call more than 12 million times a year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal | By\u00a0\u00a0Hardeep Singh,\u00a0Aug. 7, 2014 7:16 p.m. ET\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 There is a new very sobering number out in the news today.\u00a0 Twelve MILLION misdiagnoses a year.\u00a0 But the good news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/hardeep-singh-the-battle-against-misdiagnosis-1407453373\" target=\"_blank\">this article <\/a>also talks about the ways to reduce the chance it will happen &#8211;\u00a0 recognizing that improving communication between physicians and patients is the first step.\u00a0 Visit\u00a0our website at: <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctcps.org\/resources.cfm\">http:\/\/www.ctcps.org\/resources.cfm<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and see our resources to empower you, the patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal | By\u00a0\u00a0Hardeep Singh,\u00a0Aug. 7, 2014 7:16 p.m. ET\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 There is a new very sobering number out in the news today.\u00a0 Twelve MILLION misdiagnoses a year.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1760\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[105,415,564,317,562,693],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-how-to-for-patients","tag-ctcps","tag-diagnostic-errors","tag-hardeep-singh","tag-institute-of-medicine","tag-patient-engagement","tag-society-to-improve-diagnosis-in-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}