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How UTIs became one of the most common misdiagnoses in American medicine

By TIME  
   March 13, 2025

The urinary tract infection (UTI), has become the medical bogeyman that will not go away, a default but often incorrect diagnosis that seems to come up every time an older person has some ill-defined health presentation but still lacks the most reliable symptom of painful urination.

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