Jeri: Something similar to that happened to me (though I do hope they weren't depraveddoctors!!!

After the Blizzard of '96, I was shoveling snow when I became severely short of breath and was having chest pains. My then-boyfriend took me to the emergency room where they told me that my heart was fine but my chest x-ray showed that my lungs were "cloudy" (I'd had an undiagnosed chronic cough for some time before this). Went to a specialist at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philly and, several tests later (including an MRI), the diagnosis was still inconclusive and they were unsure whether I had lung cancer or not. A lung biopsy was necessary for the final diagnosis: sarcoidosis (an auto-immune disorder). This wasn't particularly surprising, since I'd had lupus for the previous 18 years or so. However, the doctor told me that my "presentation" of the disease was so unusual, so un-textbook-like, that he got a group of doctors together, showed them all my test results except the biopsy, and played "guess the diagnosis". Nobody won! The doctor tells me that I'm written up in a medical journal somewhere!