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appendicitis. and yet less than half of all people with appendicitis have the classic pattern. >> where were you experiencing the pain? >> i had pain all over my abdomen instead of just my right quadrant. the way that they ruled out appendicitis was a jump test. i was asked to jump, and i was able to maybe get one inch off the ground. and just that ruled out appendicitis for all the doctors. and that's when they just declared it was a viral infection. >> but -- >> reporter: dr. prashan mahajan heads the pediatric emergency medicine department at the university of michigan. he 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. >> reporter: it was in part that diagnostic momentum that led to the doctors missing the early signs of appendicitis in alice. every year roughly 25,000
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