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Model Izumi Mori revealed on a Fuji TV program aired on the 5th that she injured her thumb while trying to remove an avocado pit during cooking. At the hospital, the doctor told her, “It’s nothing serious, just stitch it up,” but when she went back for a follow-up a few months later, a different fact came to light, and she reportedly said she was “pissed off.” On the 5ch thread, opinions were split over whether this counts as a “misdiagnosis,” with the main points of debate being the need for a second opinion and how much she had actually told the doctor about her symptoms.
Izumi Mori Angry Over Suspected “Misdiagnosis”… Months After Doctor Said “It’s Nothing Serious,” a Shocking Truth Emerges on Follow-Up Visit
Model and TV personality Izumi Mori (44) appeared on the Fuji TV program “Cream Talk! Extreme Experience!? Grand Prix” (Thursdays at 11:00 PM), where she revealed a serious injury she sustained while cooking, and the unexpected turn of events that followed.
Mori began by saying, “I got a pretty bad injury,” explaining that while trying to pry out an avocado pit with a knife, “I ended up stabbing my own thumb.” When she went to the hospital, she said the doctor told her, “It’s nothing serious, just stitch it up.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
that's exactly how cancer ends up getting caught too late.
Yeah, you hear that about cancer a lot.
Like, for example,
someone out in the countryside keeps seeing their regular doctor for stomach pain that won't go away, but never goes to get checked anywhere else.
Is she expecting individual doctors to be infallible or something?
How else are you supposed to peel an avocado without a blade?
At our restaurant we use a spoon.
You can just peel it by hand after cutting it in half, though?
it'll walk you through every possible misdiagnosis too.
but you get why that's psychologically hard to actually do, right?
At the end of the day they're just human.
When you think about how perfectly humans actually do their jobs,
mistakes and misunderstandings happen all the time.
Finally I went to one more and begged them to do a thorough examination, and that's when they found the cause of the pain.
One of the hospitals that said 'nothing wrong' even prescribed me something like a sedative — honestly felt like I was being brushed off.
I get it, same here — I only got answers after going to a university hospital.
If someone comes in saying 'I cut my finger and it hurts,' of course the doctor's going to go 'okay, you cut it — let's disinfect it and stitch it up if the wound's wide enough.'
Time is limited too, so 'questioning every possibility' — meaning running a ton of detailed tests to check every single possibility one by one — just isn't realistic (unless the patient specifically comes in asking for a full workup).
If she'd told them her finger wouldn't move, they probably would've considered a severed tendon and ordered an X-ray — but if she never mentioned that, there's no way they could've known.
What kind of excuse is that
at least ask 'can you move your finger?' during intake, come on.
Nah, if it needed 6 stitches you wouldn't want to move your finger anyway
they obviously look at where and how deep the cut is before stitching, so this is just flat-out quackery
they didn't even ask whether her finger could move.
If she'd told them her finger stopped moving and the doctor still didn't consider a severed tendon and just went with simple treatment, yeah, that'd be a bit questionable
but she almost certainly never mentioned that in the first place.
Just redo everything from scratch, you idiots
the original tests themselves might be wrong, you know.
Second opinions aren't covered by insurance, you know
redoing everything from scratch would cost a fortune
and the blood tests, CT scans, etc. would be the same either way
so asking you to bring a referral letter from your previous hospital is actually them doing you a favor.
my maternal grandfather had a doctor he'd been seeing for years who completely missed his stage 4 stomach cancer
you believe it when the doctor says you're fine — I genuinely resent that doctor for it.
Did he actually get an endoscopy or a barium swallow test done?
What do you even cut it in half with, then
karate-chop it? (´･ω･`)
I guess kind of like peeling a mandarin orange?
Background and Key Points of This Debate
“Misdiagnosis” is a topic that comes up again and again in the news, but in actual medical practice, the diagnostic process starts from what the patient self-reports. As pointed out in the thread, second opinions aren’t covered by insurance, and a hospital providing a referral letter with the initial test data can actually be seen as a courtesy on the medical institution’s part. The original article cited here doesn’t specify exactly what the “shocking fact” revealed during the follow-up visit was, and thread commenters themselves stopped short of stating anything as fact, offering only speculation like “maybe they never asked whether her finger could move.” Opinions were split between those blaming the doctor for not asking enough questions and those pointing out that Mori herself may not have mentioned her symptoms (such as her finger not moving) — and it’s worth noting that neither has been confirmed as fact.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Izumi Mori Angry Over Suspected ‘Misdiagnosis’… Months After Doctor Said ‘It’s Nothing Serious,’ Shocking Truth Emerges on Follow-Up Visit, ‘I’m Pissed’.”
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