“Not everybody has a positive experience with Boston Children’s Hospital.”
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I realize that but this incident absolutely astonishes me. Things may have changed considerably since I used their services.
I just pray that poor girl will be okay.
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She will probably never be okay. She has been ripped from her family, from her parents and her sisters. She is allowed to see her family for one hour a week - under armed guard. Medical care has been withheld from her, education has been withheld from her and religious services have been withheld. All her support systems have been taken away. She cannot even receive her get well cards. Her original doctor wants to see her every week and they won’t allow it. Why not let her go to church? Why not provide education? Why put her in a psych ward and think she’s going to be okay after more than a year of this prison?
BTW the original physician who started this entire mess decided during the intake interview that her problem was psychological, not medical, in spite of the fact that doctors at Tufts who had been treating her for a couple of years disagreed. That physician, I think, was a psychiatrist or neurologist who was just out of his residency. As I said there are at least five other cases pending in which Children’s hospital and the state took custody away from the parents.