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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.

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Examples

  • You led the study that found 41 percent of all coma patients are misdiagnosed, which is terrifying.

    CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2009 2009

  • And if this child was technically "misdiagnosed" with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined?

    David Kirby: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? 2009

  • I've read some things that suggest sensory perception problems are often "misdiagnosed" as ADD/ADHD, and what should be treated by things like Sound Therapy and other more hands on, experiental techniques, and methods of

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2010

  • My daughter, after experiencing abdominal pain and being "misdiagnosed" by a private clinic and hospital, ended up in a provincial hospital casualty ward at midnight.

    News24 Top Stories 2009

  • And if this child was technically "misdiagnosed" with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined?

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • He very calmly told me that the pain that had been misdiagnosed for months turned out to be pancreatic cancer.

    Dana Delany: Standing Up for My Father Dana Delany 2011

  • He very calmly told me that the pain that had been misdiagnosed for months turned out to be pancreatic cancer.

    Dana Delany: Standing Up for My Father Dana Delany 2011

  • He very calmly told me that the pain that had been misdiagnosed for months turned out to be pancreatic cancer.

    Dana Delany: Standing Up for My Father Dana Delany 2011

  • It is becoming clearer by the day that too many of Europe's banking crises were initially misdiagnosed as liquidity, rather than solvency, problems.

    Iceland Comes In From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011

  • It is becoming clearer by the day that too many of Europe's banking crises were initially misdiagnosed as liquidity, rather than solvency, problems.

    Iceland's Banks Come in From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011

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