[hocndoc]

The lesson from that show wasn’t that the diagnosis was missed - it’s to keep going back if you’re worried, because some things can’t be diagnosed early in the course of the disease.

Kawasaki disease is a syndrome that’s hard to diagnose, and by definition it can’t be diagnosed in less than 5 days and antibiotics don’t help. We use immunoglobulins and high dose aspirin.

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic811.htm
http://www.aafp.org/afp/990600ap/3093.html

The lesson from that show wasn’t that the diagnosis was missed - it’s to keep going back if you’re worried, because some things can’t be diagnosed early in the course of the disease.

[VOA]

The lesson from that show wasn’t that the diagnosis was missed - it’s
to keep going back if you’re worried, because some things can’t
be diagnosed early in the course of the disease.

That is one lesson.

Additionally, it's good that we still have a system in which
second opinions are still within reach.

As in when a doctor still misses a diagnosis.
Even on the tenth day of symptoms.

As was related in the case in point.

(and yes, Kawasaki's does sound like a diagnosis challenge)