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How a doctor’s bias can put patients at risk

Here's what patients and their families should know about `diagnostic overshadowing.'

Health care providers are sometimes guilty of bias, especially towards patients with a history of mental illness. Providers may fail to run diagnostic tests to pinpoint the cause of painful symptoms that they wrongly attribute to mental health.
Health care providers are sometimes guilty of bias, especially towards patients with a history of mental illness. Providers may fail to run diagnostic tests to pinpoint the cause of painful symptoms that they wrongly attribute to mental health.Read moreGetty Images