Don't Make My Mistake

Collective insight

What people learned about health

Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.

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Mistakes

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Money lost

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What keeps repeating

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The most expensive of them

The lessons

  1. Fear of bad news is the most expensive thing you can carry. The scan is not the danger, the delay is.

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The mistakes behind them

I ignored a lump for eight months

🇪🇸 Spain · 🏥 Health · 40-49

What happened

I was scared of what a doctor would say, so I told myself it was nothing. When I finally went, the treatment was much harder than it would have been in month one.

Time lost8 monthsEmotional costTerrifying

What I learned

Fear of bad news is the most expensive thing you can carry. The scan is not the danger, the delay is.

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