This whole business is very strange. Does anyone have any idea why they are doing this, other than sheer bureaucratic insanity? I wouldn’t think any gravy they are getting for keeping her there could possibly match all the bad publicity for the state, the hospital, and the bureaucrats in question.
Boston Children's Hospital is trying to become the world center for the treatment of Somatoform Disorder, a fancy new term for Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. The have dozens of experts on it on their staff.
When you have a hammer, everything is a nail.
When you have a bunch of experts on some condition, everybody has that condition.
The State will decide what is best for your child. You are parents. You are Obsolete!
Justina actually has mitochondrial disease, but when she went to the hospital in Massachusetts they said she didn’t, that it was all in her head and therefore her parents were medically abusing her by having her treated for it. Justina deteriorated once the Massachusetts hospital stopped the treatment she was receiving and stuck her in a mental hospital.
From an article about it....At Tufts, Justina had been treated for mitochondrial disease, a group of rare genetic disorders affecting cellular energy production. When Justina began experiencing some gastrointestinal problems, the Tufts doctor treating her, Dr. Mark Korson, wanted the girl to visit Dr. Alejandro Flores at Boston Children’s Hospital, according to the family’s attorney, Phil Moran. Flores had treated Justina in the past, Moran said, and Korson thought it beneficial for the teen to see a gastroenterologist.
Justina was taken by ambulance to Boston Children’s Hospital because she was in a wheelchair at the time and a heavy snowstorm was blanketing the region. To her family’s surprise, she was diagnosed with somatoform disorder — a mental condition in which a patient experiences symptoms that are real but have no physical or biological explanation.
The Pelletier family rejected the new psychiatric diagnosis and wanted to bring Justina back to Tufts. After tempers flared between the Pelletiers and staff at Boston Children’s, the hospital notified the state that it suspected the parents of medical child abuse.
The girl was kept at Boston Children’s psychiatric ward for nearly a year before being moved to the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network facility in Framingham, Mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_disease
My daughter’s friend has a little girl with mito in Indiana, may she never take her daughter to Boston Children’s Hospital.