Jill Simmons, M.D., encounters medical mysteries that have the makings of a science fiction film or novel.
As a pediatric endocrinologist with a special interest in metabolic bone disorders, she sees patients with rare, severe medical conditions — from a child who as an infant had no visibly detectable bone on an X-ray image due to a condition called hypophosphatasia to children who suffer from a fragile bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), that can leave them with dozens of bone fractures before elementary school.
