Jake Tapper‘s daughter Alice is reliving a horrible situation. The 15-year-old high school sophomore was misdiagnosed last year around Thanksgiving after experiencing severe abdominal pain for days.
She ended up having appendicitis. But as she tells it now, doctors didn’t believe her pain to be as serious as it was, and they downplayed her symptoms.
Horrifically, the health issue nearly killed her — until her famous CNN host father pulled rank and demanded the hospital take action!! Related: Sharon Osbourne Rushed To Hospital After On-Set Medical Emergency Alice wrote an op-ed for CNN late last week.
In it, she revealed how she “almost died” due to appendicitis while doctors incorrectly diagnosed her pain as a viral infection.
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