Some interesting facts from the field of medicine

and how faith-based it can be, from Craig Feied. Here are some that I found noteworthy:

• 80% of fatal blood clots are not diagnosed until autopsy
• many cancer patients are found to have died from a different cancer than the one for which they were diagnosed
• clinical judgment is only 50% correct
• a "good test", i.e. one with a 1% false-positive and 1% false negative rate, will only yield 50% accuracy if the disease being tested for is prevalent in 1% of the population
• inferential tests for conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes have less than a 20% accuracy rate
  

I added the bikini statistics tag. Here are some previous posts sharing that tag, with the following definition:

Statistics are like a bikini. What they present is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital--Aaron Levenstein