Summary
Through our End Diagnostic Overshadowing: Addressing manifestations of ableism in the healthcare context program we aim to identify and create understanding of mechanisms underlying diagnostic overshadowing and mitigate and reduce its effects. Diagnostic overshadowing—attributing symptoms to disability rather than a potentially new or comorbid condition—is a result of ableism. It contributes to diagnostic errors (i.e., missed, delayed, wrong diagnoses) that result in major causes of death in the US,12-14 and are estimated to cost >$100B/year.15 Some diagnoses are prone to diagnostic error incl
