There are some who seem to think that if they don't know something, it must not exist; the God complex I suppose. Heck, there are just some bad doctors out there. I came down with Bell's Palsy a few years ago. Not ever been familiar with it, it scared the heck out of me and off to the emergency room I went thinking I was having a stroke. My face was obviously paralyzed; I couldn't move a muscle on the left side of my face. The ER doc diagnosed it as sinusitis, interrupting and dismissing my complaints that I had never heard of sinusitis paralyzing one's head.
" I came down with Bell's Palsy a few years ago. Not ever been familiar with it, it scared the heck out of me and off to the emergency room I went thinking I was having a stroke. My face was obviously paralyzed; I couldn't move a muscle on the left side of my face."
Exact same thing happened to me in college. I thought I had a brain tumor or something. My doc at least diagnosed it correctly, though. My roommates got a kick out of watching me take a sip of something and half of it fall out of my mouth. In fact, they tried to make me laugh, just so half of my face would look weird.