really something as simple as needing a different test or a different image to look at a possibility that they were not considering. i mean, isn t that really what it comes down to in so many of these cases, is that doctors need to be thinking outside of this idea of what they think it may be and need to test the hypothesis? what happened with alice was horrific because first of all they wouldn t give us image lg. we were asking for imaging, can we get an x-ray or sonogram, and they would don t it. we don t need it, they said. sanjay talked about diagnostic momentum, for lack of a better term, buying into a narrative, we believe this is a virus, therefore we don t need that data because we ve decided it s this and getting on that train of it s a virus, it s a virus, and ignoring other evidence suggesting something else.
dr. david newman toker. he s somebody who after this incident happened and after alice recovered anded a her appendix out looked into her case on behalf of johnson & johnson hopkins. it s harrowing. what happens is, in the study the doctor looks at 800,000 americans either died or severely disabled because of diagnostic error, which he says happens about 111% of the time. most of the time it s not death or serious disability, but 371,000 people died according to this study, 424,000 sustained permanent disability such as brain damage, blindness, loss of organs, limbs, or metastasized cancer. this is a serious issue. it doesn t make the doctor popular among his colleagues, but it s a serious issue. i ll be talking about it with sanjay coming up. it s hard being told that you re messing up. but we look at your daughter, and in this case, when it was
bhis her white blood cell count so high, et cetera, et cetera. this has become an issue, a cause for my daughter, alice. she talked about this on air with sanjay a year ago. while we were on vacation with idaho, a family in massachusetts found her on instagram and started writing about their daughter who had a situation similar to alice s, misdiagnosis, doctors messed up, they made the wrong decisions. and before you knew it, me and my wife and my daughter, we were all involved with this family telling them what to do. and thank gold that little girl is recovering. but, you know, you have to be fierce. people out there need to know they have rights as patients. my dad s a doctor, my mom is a nurse. i revere the medical profession. but people make mistakes and patients are allowed to say i really would like a sonogram, i really would like a kac.a.t. sc, you re not taking this seriously
after her and worked out deals with co-conspirators who testified against her, once she was facing a mandatory life without parole sentence and that s what was handed down. the judge had no choice but to sentence her to die in prison. the department of justice under former president obama denied her petition. we re told at least three times we know of. would there have been blowback in president obama had commuted her service? no, i don t believe so. i thought alice s case was a slam dunk. i reviewed thousands of cases. alice s was among the strongest. she had a spotless record. even the warden supported her petition. she had strong support of her family. a job lined up for release. i don t think there would have been blowback. we don t know why obama denied it. but obviously kim kardashian saw