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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/15/a-de...
Could you please read the article (link to the article above) and answer three questions based on this article.
The questions are:
1. How is TB traditionally detected in the lab, what steps are necessary?
2. What modern test exist to detect TB, how it is different from older techniques?
3. After reading this article, what do you think could be done to improve TB detection and treatment?
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: DEADLY MISDIAGNOSIS
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Deadly misdiagnosis
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Deadly misdiagnosis
Question One
According to the article, detecting TB was done through some traditional methods and
which in most cases led to misdiagnosis. In India, since people do not seek medical attention
from the government-funded hospitals, they end up in private facilities where they get diagnosed.
Most of the doctors in the private institutions use coughing as one of the symptoms of TB.
Whenever a patient seeks medical attention from these facilities with a cough, it is likely that
they will be diagnosed with TB. On the other hand, drawing blood from the patient's body is the
second method applied in testing for the TB illness (Specter, 2010). However, through the tests,
when patients have TB antibodies, ...