one more quick article. I can't believe this one was published.

CNN.com -- Signs you may be misdiagnosed

First, look at these pieces of advice... if your symptoms don't match your diagnosis, it might not be the right diagnosis. I don't know if that's the most overly-obvious thing I've ever heard or the most ignorantly simple.

Second, I'm pretty sure a good chunk of people diagnosed with cancer refuse to believe it and go to find a second opinion -- they just found one of the few people where the second opinion disagreed. In her case, the original labs came back positive twice and she had the symptoms... but by some very unlikely chance, the labs were wrong twice in a row and the symptoms were due to something else; and yet all this is presented to make the doctor look like an idiot somehow. Yeah, we doctors are always jumping the gun to diagnose our patients with a rare fatal cancer. But imagine if the doctor had insisted her tumor was benign and her symptoms were due to menopause and actually she turned out to have cancer -- that doctor would have been painted a fool too.

Finally, I love that they give you the signs so you can diagnose yourself with misdiagnosis.