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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]pnwmom
(108,978 posts)on the Boston Globe, which is a liberal newspaper? I linked to one but there were several.
The Hartford Courant is also mainstream.
Whatever you thought in the past, the situation has changed.
The judge returned Justina's medical care to the metabolic specialist, Dr. Mark Korson, her parents were taking her to in the first place-- a tacit acknowledgement that it was not "overmedicalizing" for them to be getting her treated for mitochondrial disease by Dr. Korson.
And her custody was returned in full to her parents, without any conditions, and she's no longer under the supervision of either Massachusetts or Connecticut. (Which had pointedly refused to open an investigation on her, having no basis to do so other than MA's requests.)
The young woman who had been ice skating just a few weeks before a bad case of the flu landed her in the Boston Children's ER, has been in a wheelchair ever since. She has also suffered significant hair loss and it turns out that she had pneumonia twice while under the "care" of B.C. She also has fallen more than a year behind in her schooling, with her reading level dropping severely.
We now know that her care at BC resulted in a worsening of her health, not an improvement.
I'm sure BC has "their side" of the story. But the bottom line is that, after a 12 hour period of observation, they filed papers to remove a girl from her parents for what turned out to be 16 months. And in the end they gave up on their methods, whatever they were, and returned her to the care of her original doctors at Tufts. They hadn't helped her. They'd only hurt her.