Pathology Is Not A Perfect Science

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Hi All,

I used to think that if a pathologist rendered a verdict on a tissue sample, the diagnosis was iron clad. As time goes by, though, it is becoming more and more apparent that pathologists are only human, like the rest of us, and therefore, they are subject to occasionally making mistakes and/or oversights.

Here is a case where a student in a high school science class, diagnosed her own Crohn's disease, after struggling with the disease for 8 years, without an "official" diagnosis from her doctors. It seems that, for many of us, we "fall through the cracks" in the medical establishment, and if we don't take charge of our own health, we may never see any improvement.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/11/te ... index.html

I have a hunch that this sort of "missed diagnosis" probably happens occasionally with MC, and celiac disease, also, (and probably a lot of other diseases, for that matter).

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