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May be a psychosomatic effect, or may just be the writers cranking the intensity of the symptoms up, now that the cause doesn't have to be kept secret from the audience.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the movie ''[[Brazil (Film)|Brazil]]'', our first view of Mrs. Terrain has her with a few bandages due to a "complication" with treatment to make her look younger. Throughout the course of the movie her condition worsens despite her doctor's insistence that she'll soon be up and about, and in one of the dream sequences we see her coffin, which turns out to contain nothing but bones and [[Squick|something that looks unpleasantly like]] [
* Walt in ''[[Gran Torino]]''. Sure, he was [[Coughing Up Blood]] anyway, but one gathers he was suffering with that for a long time before he went to see the doctor about it. Walt is never seen to get any worse, however his prognosis is pretty grim, by the way he suddenly tries to reach out to his 'good-for-nothing' son. Oddly, one never sees him deteriorate beyond that gruesome cough, from which he always quickly recovers.
* [[Finding Neverland]] - where the reason for Sylvia's coughs is not revealed until late because she kept refusing to get treatment or act like anything was going wrong.
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** They at least [[Lampshaded]] this when one of the doctors questions how he could even be walking around with a disease that bad.
** Subverted, however, by Ben Sullivan (portrayed by Brendon Fraser)--Dr. Cox's best friend and ex-brother-in-law. In the first episode he was in, he was diagnosed with leukemia. He really didn't show any symptoms beyond an inability for his blood to congeal. In the third episode he's in, a year after his first appearance, he appears healthy but hasn't been seeing his oncologist for some time. Dr. Cox insists he get a workup and restart his treatments, but he dies twenty minutes after Dr. Cox goes off to run some errands for his son's birthday party.
* Exception: In the first few minutes of the new ''[[
* Every episode of ''[[House (TV)|House]]''. Every time the team comes up with a theory, the patient's condition instantly escalates to point of unerring predictability.
** [[Justified Trope|That's almost entirely to do with]] the fact that the diagnosis is always ''wrong'' until the end of the show when they finally figure it out. Considering House's radical treatments, the diagnosis itself actually can make them worse. The number of times they give immunosuppressant steroids to people who end up having infections thinking they have some autoimmune disorder is amazing.
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