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failure to diagnose |
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failure to diagnose, n a failure to assess a patient's condition. Harm may be inflicted by the failure to administer treatment to a potentially treatable condition. |
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| In Morocco, local physicians and healthcare administrators often do not realize that different species of Leishmania require differential treatments, which can result in a failure to diagnose more serious disease. According to her parents' lawsuit, a doctor's failure to diagnose the infection led to the death of vessels that drained spinal fluid from Tara's brain, requiring the insertion of a shunt to take over the task. Attribution error was behind an emergency physician's failure to diagnose unstable angina in a forest ranger in his forties, Unstable angina provokes a crescendo of chest pain that often presages a heart attack, but in this case, the patient appeared far too fit and trim to be suffering from heart disease. |
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