Delays and Errors in the Diagnosis of Brain Tumor

MOST general practitioners, internists and neuropsychiatrists with a sufficiently large and varied practice sooner or later have the distressing experience of mistaking a brain tumor for a psychoneurosis or of unnecessarily delaying the correct diagnosis. As in other disorders involving behavior, the opinions of family and friends, as well as of other lay people in the community, often contribute to confuse the opinions of the physician, particularly of the general practitioner. Such considerations stimulated the present investigation of diagnostic errors made in 100 proved cases of brain tumor.It is impossible to extract a bibliography on diagnostic errors from the . . .