appendicitis does not present in a standard way. reporter: it s been nine months since alice tapper finally got her appendectomy. and after a particularly dark time she is once again allowing herself to start dreaming about the future. but now she has a new mission as well. i want to row in college and maybe study zoology. i just love how my life is turning out. i think that it was a really i wish it never happened to me, obviously. but i think it was a really important learning experience for me. i want other kids to know that they need to advocate for themselves. so sanjay, you re not only a dad, you re a doctor who works at a major hospital. i can tell you firsthand how frustrating this was for me and jennifer. so as a parent when you know something is wrong with your kid how can you really get your doctor s attention if you feel they re not listening and not taking sufficiently seriously what you re telling them?
of the administrator, figure it out. and they took the call and they took action. but most people wouldn t have been able to do that. we recognize we have this privilege. we got an x-ray and it showed that i had something going on in my appendix. so after we got a sonogram they were like we need to rush you into surgery after this. reporter: but by then alice had worsened. dramatically. the reason she had suffered such widespread pain was because her appendix had already ruptured, leading to severe infection and sepsis. an appendectomy is one of the most common pediatric operations performed. typically, it lasts for about an hour and the recovery takes a few weeks. in alice s case, however, the operation couldn t even be done because her abdominal cavity was now filled with infected fluid. i had to get two liposcopic drains at first. and then after they discharged
Shaheen Afridi who was given rest because of a knee injury during T20 World Cup suffered another setback on Saturday when he had to be rushed to hospital in Islamabad for an appendicitis operation
A secondary analysis of the CODA trial on appendicitis treatments is seen as further evidence of the need for shared decision-making in medicine, researchers say.