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** In a non-bruising/birthmark example, little Alyssa Hazel's parents were questioned when the then-two-year-old presented with vaginal bleeding. It turned out she was having precocious puberty, therefore her period, which was a symptom of [[spoiler: McCune-Albright Syndrome.]]

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** In a non-bruising/birthmark example, little Alyssa Hazel's parents were questioned when the then-two-year-old presented with vaginal bleeding. It turned out she was having precocious puberty, therefore her period, which was a symptom of [[spoiler: McCune-Albright [=McCune=]-Albright Syndrome.]]
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*** Baby Julie [=McCawley=], whose [[spoiler: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome]] was misdiagnosed as chicken pox, even after [[WhatAnIdiot her entire body was covered with blisters at least an inch across and often larger.]]

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*** Baby Julie [=McCawley=], whose [[spoiler: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome]] was misdiagnosed as chicken pox, even after [[WhatAnIdiot her entire body was covered with blisters at least an inch across and often larger.]]
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One of the episodes, "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Eating," when Conor Heybach is diagnosed with Prader-Willi Symdrome, he went through is therapy which is one of the treatments, the narrator says that in addition to no cure, also incorrectly says that there is no treatment.

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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One of the episodes, "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Eating," when Conor Heybach is diagnosed with Prader-Willi Symdrome, Syndrome, he went through is therapy which is one of the treatments, the narrator says that in addition to no cure, also incorrectly says that there is no treatment.
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* HarmfulHealing: Sometimes, the efforts of medical professionals to remedy what they believe to be a specific illness can make the actual condition worse; for example, a child suffering the early stages of the ultimately lethal disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva - which turns soft tissue to bone - was initially misdiagnosed as having neurofibromatosis, and when her arm was amputated by surgeons, the damage to her body only accelerated the progress of the disease.

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