Alice and Jake Tapper tell the story of Alice's almost fatal misdiagnosis of appendicitis as keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine in Cleveland on Monday
CNN’s Jake Tapper and daughter Alice speakers at Society to Improve Diagnosis in MedicineCLEVELAND, Ohio - Two years ago, CNN news anchor Jake Tapper almost lost his then 14-year-old daughter Alice.
That began the Tapper family’s crusade to raise awareness about misdiagnosis and specifically appendicitis. Based in part because Alice passed a “jump test,” jumping an inch, something doctors assumed she couldn’t do if he had appendicitis, doctors made the initial diagnosis of a viral infection. “Something like seven thousand kids a year die from sepsis which is quite often very preventable,” said Tapper. “So Alice wants to make sure hospitals are aware of the dangers of misdiagnosis.”
“This has become a family cause,” said Jake Tapper. “Not because we’re trying to get revenge but because we’re trying to make sure no other family goes through this ever again.”
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