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Parents the doctor has morgans diagnosis wrong. >> this wasnt our morgan. shes had the flu before. this wasnt how she acted. >> they ask for a ct scan of her head, but the doctor wont listen. >> what is the consequence of a doctor not listening to you? >> theyre failing to hear the first manifestation of a life-threatening illness, and theyre failing to register and therefore look on your body for the first clues of that and begin to order the right tests. >> after hours of begging the doctor fi...

>> we place drapes over the entire area to keep it sterile. mistakes can be made very rarely when you have draping that obscures the mark. >> in the u.s. seven patients every day suffer body part mix-ups. just before surgery make sure you confirm with the nurse and the surgeon the correct body part and side of your operation and dont be shy about doing it. at number 5 radical radiation. this isnt a bad haircut. its the damage done by too much radiation. michael heuser goes in for a ct scan of hi...

Allowable dose. >> the well-publicized images we saw of patients who got ct scans of their brain who had hair loss in a very clear distribution, that was the area with a lot of repetitive imaging where the doses get up very high. basically, the hair cells got destroyed by the radiation. >> the fallout from that dangerously high amount of radiation wasnt just hair loss. donald, michael, and suzanne have to worry that all that radiation could give them cancer. if possible, instead of a ct scan get...

Happens next can only be described as shocking. >> i just hit him. i mean i just -- just went into rage, you know. i mean i really didnt realize i was doing it until i was like, you know, i was on the ground when they grabbed me. >> ive had some bruising in the face, some swelling. i had a cut on my cheek. >> doug krickmer is the lawyer you see in the video. >> they took me to the hospital after it occurred, ran a ct scan, checked me over, and it came out okay. >> hes been a public defender for ...

>> so whats the highest price ever paid for a stradivarius instrument? the answer is b. $15.9 million for the lady blood violin sold in london in 2011. jamie: in the fall of 2011, the heirs of bernard greenhouse anxiously await the ct scan on the stradivarius. millions of dollars are at stake. radiologist steven performed a scan just like this one. >> the diseases that affect an old cello is caused by two things. one is cracks. the other abnormality is wormholes. channeled through wood until som...

At a certain point the cello was almost as weary as he. >> nicholas book describes a harrowing process. the cello sat in pieces for months while some of its wood was patched. >> bernie got more and more restless and more and more ready to have his hearts darling returned. he said then i will never let it go again. and he never did. >> but he did play the strad for another decade. in the last years of his life, bernard became so attached to the cello that he slept with it. every serious bidder wi...

Im telling you, this aint working. i can have -- id rather have the prosecutor be my attorney than him. hed probably give me a better trial. >> when the judge says no, what happens next can only be described as shocking. >> i just hit him. i mean i just -- just went into rage, you know. i mean i really didnt realize i was doing it until i was like, you know, i was on the ground when they grabbed me. >> ive had some bruising in the face, some swelling. i had a cut on my cheek. >> doug krickmer is...

Smoking is a risk factor, current and past smoking. we are told, we asked that question, he has stopped smoking. is he chewing gum a lot. nicorette gum, clearly, if he is smoking in anyway, ocasually, it is a specter for acid reflux. the cat scan the ct scan done, that is probably not typical. this is the president of the united states we are talking about. so an abundance of caution again is something that comes into play here him typically, what happens if someone has acid reflux, you give the...

And also issues that he himself takes very seriously. >> im listening to you. im wondering are they trimming the christmas tree behind you. what about, we know the president went to the hospital over the weekend. how is he doing? issues with his throat. what did they find? >> reporter: the white house says president obama has been suffering for some weeks with acid reflux. he made a brief visit to the hospital this weekend on saturday to get that checked out. he a ct scan that came back normal. ...

Happening 50 years ago. you talk to your parents, grandparents, uncles, theyll tell you that, you know, things are better, not good in some case, but better. >> reporter: this as the president is dealing with a health issue. hes had a sore throat for weeks and the white house says an unexpected hospital visit this weekend we vealed he has acid reflux. a white house official says a ct scan was done out of an abundance of normal. no autopsy was done or planned and he will be treated. sunday evenin...