MYSTERY ER

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Discovery Home And Health

Every patient that comes into the emergency room is a conundrum that doctors must unravel in order to most effectively treat them. Most present symptoms that give an indication of what the problem is; but, in some cases these symptoms can be misleading, clues can lead nowhere and as the clock continues to count down, lives can be lost.

Mystery ER highlights these baffling cases, and the dedicated doctors and investigators examining them, as they race against time to discover the solutions to a variety of ailments. In the first episode a group of church parishioners in Maine are struck down by a perplexing epidemic, and medical staff and police work together to try and work out what is causing the illness. Also, a young mother wakes up one morning unable to walk; doctors aggressively treat what they think is the problem, but as she continues to deteriorate they must change their plan to find out what is causing her spreading paralysis.