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  • Discovery Health Channel (DHC)
  • Oct 15, 2005
  • 43 m
  • Discovery Health Channel (DHC)
  • Oct 15, 2005
  • 43 m
Mystery Diagnosis

Summary Are you suffering from a life-threatening illness? Are your bizarre symptoms baffling your doctors? Are they misdiagnosing your ailment as a result? This program shows how some indomitable patients refused to give up and found amazing conclusions to the mysteries of their diagnoses.

Written By: Chuck Smith

  • Discovery Health Channel (DHC)
  • Oct 15, 2005
  • 43 m
  • Discovery Health Channel (DHC)
  • Oct 15, 2005
  • 43 m
Mystery Diagnosis
S1 • Episode 4
Isaac's Nightmare
Air Date: Oct 15, 2005
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Summary Are you suffering from a life-threatening illness? Are your bizarre symptoms baffling your doctors? Are they misdiagnosing your ailment as a result? This program shows how some indomitable patients refused to give up and found amazing conclusions to the mysteries of their diagnoses.

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Episode 1 • Nov 21, 2005
Grasping for Straws
Doctors are baffled by a woman's mysterious respiratory problem. Featuring Cushing's syndrome, Gout, Carcinoid cancer. Orthostatic intolerance refers to the inability to remain upright without symptoms.
Episode 2 • Nov 2, 2005 • 43 m
Like Mother, Like Son
A child with Celiac disease is intolerant of gluten; a woman has her left frontal lobe removed to stop seizures.
Episode 4 • Oct 15, 2005 • 43 m
Isaac's Nightmare
A young boy's body is not producing antibodies to fight infections; a cancerous tumor must be removed; a woman loses the ability to walk.
Episode 5 • Aug 18, 2005 • 43 m
Why Is Emily Screaming?
Parents search for why their happy, healthy baby is crying and holding her cheek. A woman searches for answers after she gains 100 lbs. in three months, gets skins tags, horrible acne, and stops menstruating.
Episode 6 • Nov 11, 2005
Blood & Fire
A 12-year-old girl experiences abdominal pains and severe headaches until she is diagnosed with a retroflexed odontoid and Chiari One malformation; a firefighter and paramedic is diagnosed with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Episode 7 • Nov 28, 2005
Desperate for a Cure
A 5-year-old has a persistent fever and stomachache. Featuring Crohn's disease, Cervical dystonia, Brucellosis.
Episode 8 • Dec 11, 2005 • 43 m
Blood Brothers
Joanne suffers from joint pain, mouth ulcers, genital sores, skin lesions and vision problems.
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