Doctors Misdiagnose Rare Disorder (2:46)

Doctors Misdiagnose Rare Disorder  (2:46) [New Words]   ♧ custody : n. 보호, 관리, 후견   ♧ be diagnosed with A : A의 진단을 받다    -n. diagnosis : 진단   ♧ momentum : n. 운동량, 힘, 추진력, 타성   ♧ rage : n. 격노, 분노   ♧ pediatrician : n. 소아과 의사   ♧ have A in common : A를 공통으로 가지다   ♧ digestive : a. 소화의, 소화를 돕는   ♧ side effect : n. 부작용   ♧ seizure : n. 발작, 발병   ♧ accusation : n. 비난, 트집, 고발, 고소   ♧ levee : v. ~에 제방/축을 쌓다   ♧ have nothing to do with A : ~과 관련이 없다   ♧ leery (of) : a. 의심 많은, 조심/경계하는   We are going to take a closer look tonight at whether mothers are losing custody of their children because of a medical mistake. There are woman who are diagnosed with the disease called Munchausen Syndrom by proxy. It's a rare condition where mothers hurt their children to get attention. There are no reliable statistics, but it's estimated there are 1,200 cases a year in the U.S. The question is how many of them are real. ABC's Brian Roonie has this special report.   Four years ago, Shira and Glan Apkinson of Palm Bay, Florida, were raising their three children, including a baby named Dustin, who is now five. He had been hospitalized 15 times with trouble breathing, but doctors could not find a reason for his problem. They eventually turned their attention to his mother, Shira, and diagnosed her with Munchausen Syndrom by proxy. Social services took away all the children.   "I couldn't believe it. I had never done anything to the kids."    Munchausen Syndrom by proxy is a condition in which a parent, usually the mother, makes her child sick or tries to convince the doctors her child is sick in order to draw attention to herself as a good and caring mother. But Shira Apkinson, and as it turns out many other parents, have been falsely accused.   "There is a certain momentum in medicine and psychology to find a new diagnosis and diagnose it everywhere. Munchausen Syndrom by proxy is one that is currently kind of all the rage."   The disease was first diagnosed by doctor Roy Meadow, a British pediatrician, seen here in a 2003 documentary. The film's director contacted 200 mothers diagnosed with Munchausens, and found that 123 of them had one thing in common - their children were all taking drugs for digestive trouble : Reglan and Propulsid also known as Cisapride and suffering similar side effects : seizures and breathing trouble - classic Munchausen Symptoms.   "Referring to side effects of the drugs exactly mimicked. The accusations that doctors were leveeing against mothers." "Hey, buddy!!"  It took the Apkinsons 9 months to convince a judge that Dustin's Symptoms had nothing to do with Munchausen Syndroms. To this day, Shira is leery of taking her children to the doctor.   "What if somebody else sees, you know, things that maybe I .... I have this and accuses me of it again? Because you're guilty until you prove you're innocent."   Doctors insist Munchausen Syndrom is real, but how often it really occurs is now under serious question.   Brian Roonie, ABC News, Los Angeles.