Recently had surgery to relieve your back pain, but your condition seems worse than before? The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies reports that 100 million Americans suffer from pain that will not go away, and 12 million Americans who seek outpatient medical care are misdiagnosed each year.

Twelve million is the staggering number of people in the United States each year who seek outpatient medical care and are misdiagnosed, according to BMJ Quality & Safety and “CBS News.