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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Harvard Doctors may be good, but again they are not gods. Everyone can be wrong, everyone can make a mistake. We are human, it goes with the territory.
Why didn't the court seek testimony from the Doctors at Tufts, which is another excellent hospital and training facility? They were the ones treating her for years, yet their testimony was not only not sought, but was ignored and then refused by the court. Are you saying that anyone who graduates from or practices at Tufts is nothing more than a snake oil salesman? Because that is exactly what Boston's Children and Family Services said by petitioning to deny the Doctors from Tufts from offering testimony.
Tufts is ranked very highly in patient satisfaction. Now, I'm sure you agree that such a highly ranked medical center would be heard right? Not so much.
So what is the end result? The girl was tortured for sixteen months while people refused to listen. In the end the DCF who had just last year found that the parents were abusive because they provided medical care for their child, gave up and reccomended full custody to the parents. The same parents who had for the last sixteen months been trying to get the girl home to her doctors so her treatment could resume. The same treatment that sixteen months ago was cruel abuse right?
So in the end, your opposition to the RW would have condemned this girl to more torture. This is why I say, this kind of crap is a pox on both houses. The RW was ideological as hell and moronic as they opposed the release of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. They let personal opinion get in the way of medical science. But psychiatry is one of the most opinion based disciplines of medical science. If the girl had shown improvement during her treatment with the doctors at Tufts, then the obvious solution would be to talk to those doctors and find out what was going on. Instead, morons near and far denounced the parents and denigrated anyone who thought that the state was wrong.
I'm disgusted. I'm really completely disgusted with such a mentality. Perhaps you should go offer your support for the subject of this thread. I mean, obviously only RW tools would object to things that psychiatrists and academics believe are normal right? I mean, Dr. Taylor is a qualified Sociologist and Sussex University is well know world wide isn't it? Or do we have to wait until Harvard weighs in to decide what is right? If someone from Harvard says that it's normal, are we going to jump on board and claim we support it because Rethugs oppose it? I'm betting some posters here would.