I have no idea if all the facts are out, but I will say any group will have bad apples including the finest hospitals, so could be a bad apple doctor. I think a more likely scenario is that only takes one doctor to believe there is abuse (physical abuse or mental/Munchausen’s by proxy, etc.) and report it, then CPS must investigate.
In a nutshell girl’s previous doctors at another hospital thought she had mitochondrial disease and diagnosed her with that, treated her for that. I did some research on mitochondrial and some doctors do not believe it is a real disease (I have read the doctor that treated her at BCH is one that does not believe in it) and some think when it is diagnosed it might be covering the real issue- Munchausen’s- which is called something else now I think. I read an article about mitochondrial disease and it stated that because with that disease a person can have a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms it is sometimes mis-diagnosed as Munchausen’s.
I have no real knowledge of mitochondrial, Munchausen’s or the people involved so I cannot figure out who is right in this mess.
“Munchhausen by proxy” is a psychological pathology of the caretaker, NOT the patient. It’s where the caretaker of the patient does things to simulate sickness in the patient, forcing unneeded medical treatments. MA and the Dr in charge at BCH claims that there’s not anything wrong with the girl.
However Tufts University hospital diagnosed her AND HER OLDER SISTER with mitochondrial syndrome. The problem was that a doctor who had treated her for something else moved from Tufts to BCH, and when her Dr at Tufts felt that she needed to see the other Dr, her parents took her to BCH, and that’s when things went all to hell.
I’ve heard that BCH has not let her former Dr that she was sent to see for an unrelated illness even treat her.
This girl has deterorated incredibly in the last year. A year ago she was ice skating, now she’s confined to a wheel chair.
Mark