{"id":901,"date":"2015-10-08T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:13:58","slug":"leslie-michelsons-checklist-for-avoiding-diagnostic-errors-the-khn-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Michelson\u2019s Checklist For Avoiding Diagnostic Errors \u2013 The KHN Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Julie Appleby<strong>, <\/strong>Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>When the Institute of Medicine came out last month with a <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/iom-teamwork-key-to-reducing-medical-diagnostic-errors\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> saying almost every American will experience a medical diagnostic error, Leslie Michelson wasn\u2019t surprised.<\/p>\n<p>He runs Private Health Management, a Los Angeles based company that \u2013 for a substantial fee \u2013 helps patients figure out what\u2019s wrong with them, often after an array of doctors have failed to do so. The firm gathers the client\u2019s medical records, selects experts in the condition for which the patient has been diagnosed, refers biopsy results for second opinions \u2013 and often sends patients to meet with top-tier specialists. Sometimes, they find the patient doesn\u2019t have the condition originally diagnosed. Other times, the diagnosis is correct, but the treatment is not. His firm\u2019s services are costly, running into the tens of thousands of dollars. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/leslie-michelsons-checklist-for-avoiding-diagnostic-errors-the-khn-conversation\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=22683659&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-918kGafFrDfg4Iw75kRADSPptl1SvcZn5Db39_n8dJb1L40iLtpqqbSd1pnJPtclGTxvz5HmK1R-SOhu7vr1a0J1SVAA&amp;_hsmi=22683659\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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