Double Mastectomy

It is important for health care providers and professionals to follow up on diagnostic testing and specialist referrals. There are times that diagnostic testing and specialist referrals get lost and never followed through with which can cause a patient not to be treated appropriately. ““If test results that indicate patients need further testing or treatments are lost or not addressed, patients may not receive necessary treatment,” Ranum says” (Kreimer, 2013). As mentioned earlier in the paper where a woman was misdiagnosed with breast cancer which resulted in a double mastectomy, could have been prevented if more diagnostic testing was performed. By following up with diagnostic testing and digging a little further misdiagnosis wouldn’t happen.