Doctors' diagnostic blunders killed or permanently disabled 800,000 Americans last year, shocking data suggests

False diagnoses of a host of diseases and infections are estimated to result in 795,000 patients becoming permanently disabled or killed, new data from Johns Hopkins and Harvard suggests.

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