Show 1355: Uncovering the Shocking Dangers of Misdiagnosis

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When you develop a health problem with symptoms that trouble you, the first step is to find out what it is. Diagnosis may be the most basic task a doctor or other healthcare provider undertakes. That doesn’t mean it is easy, though. New research is uncovering the shocking dangers of misdiagnosis. The Dangers of Misdiagnosis […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Grayden and I'm Terry Grayden welcome to this podcast of the
0:04.7	People's Pharmacy. You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of
0:10.2	health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	There's a hidden epidemic that's killing hundreds of thousands of people.
0:19.0	It's called misdiagnosis.
0:21.0	Why is it so common? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.
0:27.0	Our guest Dr David Neumann Toger is one of the country's leading experts on this public health emergency.
0:41.0	His recent study revealed nearly 800,000 people killed or disabled each year
0:47.2	as a result of misdiagnosis.
0:50.0	Why haven't public health authorities made reducing diagnostic errors a priority?
0:55.2	Should there be a national institute for improving diagnosis in medicine?
0:59.4	How can you reduce the chance that you or a loved one will suffer a misdiagnosis.
1:04.3	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, uncoverlines, a new highly mutated variant of SARS-Kovi 2 is circulating internationally. Its scientific name is B.A.2.86, but most people are
1:28.2	calling it Pirola. If you've lost count of names, it's hardly surprising.
1:34.0	The challenges of following technical nomenclature has led researchers to develop creative names such
1:39.4	as Centaurus, Crackan, and Aris.
1:42.8	But even those have proliferated so fast it's been hard to keep up.
1:47.0	Perola, a name derived from the Greek letters, Pie and Row, has some scientists concerned because it has more than 30 mutations on its spike
1:56.0	protein. Such a big change might make it more infectious or more difficult for our
2:01.5	immune systems to detect.
2:04.0	Fortunately, preliminary research suggests that people who are vaccinated
2:08.5	or who had previous infections
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