Ignored Warnings, Added Diagnoses — and a Life Forever Changed Nearly 800,000 Americans die each year because of diagnostic errors. It’s a staggering and outrageous number, reported by researchers at Johns Hopkins — and it should make everyone perk up and think. Errors in diagnosis are alarmingly common among older adults. There are many reasons why this occurs. Seniors often live with multiple health conditions, take several medications, and illnesses can show up very differently than they do in younger people. Sometimes symptoms are vague or don’t appear at all. And far too often, what’s really going on gets a shoulder shrug by our health care providers: “It’s just part…