My mom saved my life that day.  But what if she hadn’t been there?  What if they didn’t catch it at all?  I could’ve ended up permanently disabled. Or worse — I could have died. How come everybody but my mom dismissed my symptoms?

Center Director Matthew Wynia finds 22-year old Mimi Hayes quite inspiring - stroke survivor, comedian and now a budding journalist.  She called to talk about medical errors and ethics...  It’s the kind of error called premature closure, or the process of finding evidence to support your opinions and downgrading anything that might go against that.  “You know, this is a young woman, she probably has a migraine. OK, so now I’m just looking for things that confirm a migraine, and anything that disconfirms that I’m going to downplay or downgrade in my mind.”  Read article>>