Fact checked by Marley Hall Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways A healthcare provider uses differential ...

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Based on our "Diagnostic Dilemma" series, this quiz tests your medical know-how.

Physicians received unexpected news recently when a small study published in JAMA Network Open found that ChatGPT-4 had outdone us at our own craft: diagnosis, what some have called the physician’s ...

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In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Misdiagnosis of disease or other medical conditions leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities each year in the United States, according to a report published this week. About ...

About three years ago Anila D’Mello, then a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscientist John Gabrieli’s laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...