In 2004, 14 years after his initial diagnosis, a second neurologist discovered the truth, according to a report by a media outlet.

Anatole Otis was 50 years old when his health began to deteriorate and he sought an examination by the first neurologist.

His family was skeptical of the diagnosis because he was still coherent.

Multiple sclerosis runs in Otis's family. His brother died of complications brought on by the disease.

The unpredictable illness attacks the body's central nervous system.

Otis has been confined to a bed for several years.

His wife, Carmen Plourde, believes appropriate medication would have slowed the disease's progression.

She is now seeking redress.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada says the disease was difficult to diagnose as recent as the early 1990s.

Still, the group is stunned a neurologist confused multiple sclerosis with a mental illness.

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