What other industry can get it wrong 88% of the time and still expect payment?

There's a study that's found that when a patient has been diagnosed with a medical condition and goes for a second opinion that 88% of the time they will get a different diagnosis than what the first doctor gave.

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NineLives · 41-45, F

I 100% agree with this statistic. I always say to my husband that we are better off googling what medical condition we could have and doing our own research, instead of relying on a doctor to find out.
Usually by the time a doctor would find out, without you guiding them or giving them clues, you'd be long dead! 😆

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I do the same thing but you know the doctors don't like you to be too informed. I go get lab tests done and find a natural treatment most of the time, they don't like that either...haha and I don't care. I know someone who was told his lab tests were all good and the doctor let him go with diabetes untreated for a whole year. And the same man went into the hospital nearly two decades ago with what he thought was a heart attack, severe pain. The heart specialist in the hospital ran a dye test and two of us watched it and the doctor came back and said he had a mild heart attack, he circled one area of the heart. After he left the room I said "It lit up like a Christmas tree, I didn't see any dark spots where the dye didn't go"....when the man went to another specialist a couple weeks later he was told that he didn't have a heart attack, he had a hiatial hernia and got treated for that.