First-Rate Second Opinions
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What actually is a second opinion?
Many will think that a second opinion is another specialist looking at the patient and deciding whether the first specialist was right.
Whilst this occasionally may happen, it usually isn’t. There are four types of second opinion.
• Diagnostic second opinion: What is actually wrong?• Treatment second opinion: We agree what is wrong, but what should we do about it?• Prognostic second opinion: What happens if we treat it — or don’t?• Failure-analysis second opinion: Why hasn’t…
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