Mystery ER

Doctors are puzzled as they examine little Ricky, a frequent patient of the ER, with persistent vomiting and an odd rash around his mouth and chest. There's no explanation for why the young child wheezes, but his every breath is a painful struggle.

When Aaron's panic-stricken parents bring their son into the ER with seizures, doctors discover a strange mass inside the boy's brain. Fearful it's cancer, they prepare Aaron for a biopsy until a sharp-eyed radiologist identifies it as a pork tapeworm.

Arunas has lived his life in good health, but after turning 50, he suddenly experiences recurrent bouts of vomiting, heart palpitations, weakness and malaise. After rigorous testing, doctors suspect he is mentally ill, but one last test says otherwise.

The pain in Alice's legs and back is unbearable. Doctors find nothing and suspect she's neurotic. When her son and neighbors begin to experience similar symptoms, the doctors are baffled. But the cause is not an epidemic, it's a vindictive boyfriend.

A single mother wakes up to find she can no longer walk, and baffled doctors go looking for the elusive disease they suspect is afflicting her central nervous system.

A military wife suffers a sudden paralysis in her leg that defies explanation. The military medical specialists that investigate the elusive cause discover it may have something to do with her husband's top-secret work.