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Was a jump test. i was asked to jump and i was maybe abe to get one inch off the ground and they declared it was a viral infection. >> this doctor says misdiagnosis can occur in part because of diagnostic momentum. >> you anchor yourself on that particular diagnosis and it is possible in some instances that it is taking you away from the condition that the patient has. >> it was in part that diagnostic momentum that led to the doctors missing the early signs of appendicitis in alice. every year ...

Way. but, look, almost losing a child is a horrible thing and we almost lost her. >> i remember when we saw this tweet last march and you were at the childrens hospital of philadelphia, we can show it finally, the hospital that was able to save alice. and i had no idea about any of this background, right, and so to think what you went through and, sanjay, alice writes "i still cant believe this happened to me, i dont want it to happen to anyone else." what can families, as jake said, that are no...

>> have you ever been living in extreme pain before? >> that was the scariest thing ive ever seen. the life was just leaving her. i thought why is her skin so green and why are her hands and feet freezing? >> i mean, you really thought that alice might die. >> i absolutely dont like to think that she could have died but 100% i was starting to think. >> jennifer and my colleague, jake tapper, are 15-year-old alices parents. they all wanted to share their story as a cautionary tale and to shed lig...

Of the administrator, figure it out. and they took the call and they took action. but most people wouldnt have been able to do that. we recognize we have this privilege. >> we got an x-ray and it showed that i had something going on in my appendix. so after we got a sonogram they were like we need to rush you into surgery after this. >> reporter: but by then alice had worsened. dramatically. the reason she had suffered such widespread pain was because her appendix had already ruptured, leading t...