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Oct 23, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Feeling a bit feisty after seeing recent tweets from doctors & journalists regarding medically unexplained symptoms & the push to give a functional and/or somatic diagnosis without thoroughly ruling out other diagnoses.
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1. Approximately 12 million US adults are misdiagnosed every year, and women and minorities 20 to 30 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed. How many women are having their medically unexplained symptoms dismissed as part of a somatic illness?
