Charity Watkins’ health took a bad turn in the weeks after her daughter was born. Her doctor blamed postpartum depression and then the flu. Those misdiagnoses put Watkins’ life at risk; she actually had heart failure.
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Medical misdiagnosis is an urgent public health problem, according to a study in The BMJ, which found rates of misdiagnosis range from 1.5% of heart attacks to 17.5% of strokes and 22.5% of lung cancers.
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