Alan Dershowitz had offered to take their case pro bono. I wonder why they didn’t take him up on it?
Now this is a case where I can see the need for an armed milita response.
Since it appears that one doctor is the primary problem, her parents should file a federal malpractice lawsuit against her. While typically malpractice lawsuits are state matters, because two states are involved in this, a federal judge might be able to accept the lawsuit.
Importantly, this lawsuit should be a whopper, and filed against the Children’s Hospital as well, which would mean their insurer would be involved, and may determine that a settlement, like letting the daughter go, is far preferable to many millions of dollars in case they lose.
In somatoform, patients actually experience the symptoms even though they don’t have a physical cause. As opposed to conversion disorder or Munchausen’s, where it is pretty much all made up.