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        • A Less-Than-Thorough Work-Up for Chest Pain
        • Attending Needed at Bedside for Emergency Abdominal DX
        • Boy Dies after Missed Ischemic Bowel
        • Breast Lump Complaint Wrongly Followed With Screening Test
        • Communication Gaps Hinder Preventative Measures
        • Delay in Post-op Hematoma Diagnosis Causes Paralysis
        • Delayed Heart Care Due to Lack of Expertise, Hospital Capability
        • Discharged from ED Before MI Death
        • Failure to Rule Out Bacterial Meningitis
        • From Chronic Problems to an Acute Dilemma
        • Girl Loses Ovary After Repeated Visits, Delayed Diagnosis
        • Inattention to Allergy
        • Incidental Finding Not Followed
        • Lost Vision After DX Delay
        • Miscommunication Leads to Retained Foreign Body
        • Missed Follow-up, Missed Cancer
        • Missed MI and Failure to Connect the Dots During Multiple Visits
        • Missed MI Despite Family History
        • Missed Opportunities to Diagnose Pancreatitis
        • Missed Opportunities in the ED
        • Mixed Symptoms, Narrow Focus Contribute to PE Death
        • Multiple Complaints and Non-compliance
        • Multiple MDs ID Chronic Origin for Headaches Before Brain Aneurysm Death
        • Narrow Diagnostic Focus in the ED
        • Narrow Focus Obscures Cancer Diagnosis
        • No Screening Discussion, Then Prostate Cancer
        • Not Offered Screening Test Before Colorectal Cancer
        • PCP Didn’t Verify Prior Colorectal Screening
        • PCP/Specialist Communication Undermines Prostate Cancer Defense
        • Physicians Unaware of Nodule on Routine X-ray
        • Primary Complaint Masks Breast Cancer
        • Rare Blood Disease Fatal after Slow Labs Review, Narrow Focus
        • Reliance on Patient’s Self Diagnosis Obscures Fatal Condition
        • The Best Laid Plans: Delayed Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
        • Treatment Delayed Despite Multiple Visits and Phone Calls
        • Undetected Med Toxicity in Child Seen by Multiple MDs
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  • A Less-Than-Thorough Work-Up for Chest Pain
  • Attending Needed at Bedside for Emergency Abdominal DX
  • Boy Dies after Missed Ischemic Bowel
  • Breast Lump Complaint Wrongly Followed With Screening Test
  • Communication Gaps Hinder Preventative Measures
  • Delay in Post-op Hematoma Diagnosis Causes Paralysis
  • Delayed Heart Care Due to Lack of Expertise, Hospital Capability
  • Discharged from ED Before MI Death
  • Failure to Rule Out Bacterial Meningitis
  • From Chronic Problems to an Acute Dilemma
  • Girl Loses Ovary After Repeated Visits, Delayed Diagnosis
  • Inattention to Allergy
  • Incidental Finding Not Followed
  • Lost Vision After DX Delay
  • Miscommunication Leads to Retained Foreign Body
  • Missed Follow-up, Missed Cancer
  • Missed MI and Failure to Connect the Dots During Multiple Visits
  • Missed MI Despite Family History
  • Missed Opportunities to Diagnose Pancreatitis
  • Missed Opportunities in the ED
  • Mixed Symptoms, Narrow Focus Contribute to PE Death
  • Multiple Complaints and Non-compliance
  • Multiple MDs ID Chronic Origin for Headaches Before Brain Aneurysm Death
  • Narrow Diagnostic Focus in the ED
  • Narrow Focus Obscures Cancer Diagnosis
  • No Screening Discussion, Then Prostate Cancer
  • Not Offered Screening Test Before Colorectal Cancer
  • PCP Didn’t Verify Prior Colorectal Screening
  • PCP/Specialist Communication Undermines Prostate Cancer Defense
  • Physicians Unaware of Nodule on Routine X-ray
  • Primary Complaint Masks Breast Cancer
  • Rare Blood Disease Fatal after Slow Labs Review, Narrow Focus
  • Reliance on Patient’s Self Diagnosis Obscures Fatal Condition
  • The Best Laid Plans: Delayed Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
  • Treatment Delayed Despite Multiple Visits and Phone Calls
  • Undetected Med Toxicity in Child Seen by Multiple MDs
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