Comments on: The Misdiagnosed Patient http://alignmap.com/2007/03/21/the-misdiagnosed-patient/ Beyond Compliance, Adherence, & Concordance - Supporting The Patient's Implementation Of Optimal Treatment Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cervantes http://alignmap.com/2007/03/21/the-misdiagnosed-patient/comment-page-1/#comment-2511 cervantes Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:13:10 +0000 http://alignmap.com/2007/03/21/the-misdiagnosed-patient/#comment-2511 Thought I'd return the favor! As it happens, I went into surgery some years back thinking I was going to have my appendix removed, and woke up 8 hours later without my ascending colon. The surgeons had found a lesion on the cecum which they presumed to be a carcinoma, and they had gone ahead and done a right hemicolectomy, only to get back from pathology that I had a diverticulum. Various adventures ensued. I believe this experience -- more the aftermath than the misdiagnosis per se -- helped steer me toward medical sociology and some of the particular problems I now study. Anyway, glad to find your blog, I'll give you a link. Thought I’d return the favor! As it happens, I went into surgery some years back thinking I was going to have my appendix removed, and woke up 8 hours later without my ascending colon. The surgeons had found a lesion on the cecum which they presumed to be a carcinoma, and they had gone ahead and done a right hemicolectomy, only to get back from pathology that I had a diverticulum. Various adventures ensued. I believe this experience — more the aftermath than the misdiagnosis per se — helped steer me toward medical sociology and some of the particular problems I now study.

Anyway, glad to find your blog, I’ll give you a link.

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