Quote Originally Posted by doc_bean
Being wrongly diagnosed can get noticed
Really? How does the patient / family know? The doctors generally stick together, so will not say that they've mistreated you.

My "favourite" example is the lady who came in with a new onsent irregular heart and shortness of breath. The consultant on was the Infectious Disease consultant, who incidentally had helped choose the antibiotic she had been on during her last admission.

For 3 days was treated for pneumonia, before coming up to my ward. I remembered her, and so ordered a stool sample to be tested. C. Difficile! So we started treatment.
Next day she went to HDU
Next day she died.