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theconversation.com/i-teach-doctors-how-to-interpret-test-results-and-the-labels-normal-and-abnormal-often-hide-what-matters-most-291125

I teach doctors how to interpret test results – and the labels ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ often hide what matters most

Doctors treated his BNP of 14 as simply "normal," missing the diagnosis that mattered. A standard heart-failure drug nearly killed him before an ultrasound caught the real problem: fluid crushing his heart.

— via The Conversation — Science, Amiran Baduashvili, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz


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