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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 finally does listen and orders the ct scan. heres what he missed. a blood clot inside morgans skull. a surgery saves her life. 1 out of every 10 diagnoses you receive from a doctor may be wrong. like morgans parents you should trust your instincts. if a diagnosis doesnt sound right to...

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 finally does listen and orders the ct scan. heres what he missed. a blood clot inside morgans skull. a surgery saves her life. 1 out of every 10 diagnoses you receive from a doctor may be wrong. like morgans parents you should trust your instincts. if a diagnosis doesnt sound right to...

She fears shes about to lose her unborn baby to a miscarriage. shes waiting in a hospital room when a nurse comes in and asks if her name is carrie. carrie says yes and follows the nurse to a ct scan room. the nurse tells carrie a doctor wants a scan of her abdomen, and they give her the scan, even though carrie is three months pregnant. >> if youre radiating the abdomen, by definition the baby is going to be in the field of radiation and the babys going to get radiated. >> that ct scan is a mis...

She fears shes about to lose her unborn baby to a miscarriage. shes waiting in a hospital room when a nurse comes in and asks if her name is carrie. carrie says yes and follows the nurse to a ct scan room. the nurse tells carrie a doctor wants a scan of her abdomen, and they give her the scan, even though carrie is three months pregnant. >> if youre radiating the abdomen, by definition the baby is going to be in the field of radiation and the babys going to get radiated. >> that ct scan is a mis...

The hospitals programmed the ct scanner wrong and repeatedly scanned these patients with monster doses of radiation. michael gets eight times the 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 wasn...

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 finally does listen and orders the ct scan. heres what he missed. a blood clot inside morgans skull. a surgery saves her life. 1 out of every 10 diagnoses you receive from a doctor may be wrong. like morgans parents you should trust your instincts. if a diagnosis doesnt sound right to...

>> surgeons are supposed to initial or mark the correct side like they did with jesse. but heres one way they can still get confused. >> 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 numb...

>> they messed up and did this eye and then did this eye. >> surgeons are supposed to initial or mark the correct side like they did with jesse. but heres one way they can still get confused. >> 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...

>> 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 an ultrasound o...

My head. >> heres how their hair falls out. the hospitals programmed the ct scanner wrong and repeatedly scanned these patients with monster doses of radiation. michael gets eight times the 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 th...