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A Misdiagnosis of Dementia

08:51 19 March in Diagnosis, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, Medicine by worldcare

In November 2016, Jacqueline Dibb and her husband Rob were told by consultants at Hull Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom that Jacqueline had frontotemporal dementia, a neurodegenerative disease classified as the “worst” type of dementia that “makes you violent” and “lose recognition of the...