[Brilliant]

Seems like they have a pretty decent chance of winning their case.

[Paleo Conservative]

"I think that the odds that this child were in serious danger were so slim that it's up to the parents to determine if a diagnostic test to determine whether or not a child has a disease, should be employed, it's not up to the state," said Rosman.

Five to ten percent is not slim odds.

[libravoter]

ping for later.

[One Proud Dad]

All the more reason to pick a pediatrician and get to know him/her. We have seen the same one now for 13 years and even if we go to the ER they will call him and he will come up or advise via the phone on what is best for our child. Weel kid visits are teh nest way to build this relationship. If you only go when they are sick you are missing an opportunity to glean a relationship where you have a say.

[GummyIII]

This article doesn't say how she was ultimately diagnosed. I bet it was a cold...

[Melas]

The article doesn't say if the test results were positive or not. If the results were positive, and the young girl's live was saved as a result of the intervention, I'd toss mom out of court on her ear.

[Siobhan]

Bump for the parents.

[Doctor Stochastic]

And had the doctor not done the tests and the girl had meningitis, the doctor would have been sued for not doing enough.

[msrngtp2002]

Perhaps the bigger picture has been missed here...

I have never met a doctor that appeared to know more about my body than me. Similarly I never met one that know more about my kid than me.

Medical doctors are not all-knowing, always right, so when the state decided to interfere, they assumed that the doctor, being a "Medical Doctor" after all - was all knowing and always right and the parent was just some stupid clod.

The State has NO RIGHT of interference without a court order that must require the violation of some law. If the law is written such that a Doctor can make this call then the law is clearly wrong and should be removed from the books.

Irregardless of the ending diagnosis the Doctor, believing that he/she is all-knowing, convinced the state that the parents were "neglecting" their child. Hogwash. At the same time the cops were involved dozens of kids in that city were being beaten, starved, molested or neglected FOR REAL - but the system chooses the easy mark to make it's case.

I have been victimized by one of these systems when my ex-spouse anonymously called some hotline and reported that I was "neglecting" my teen-age kids. This was the easy mark and for 6 months the clowns would show up at school, my house, my work and other times to question my kids to see if they were being cared for. At the same time dozens of kids were really being molested but they kept returning them to the parents.

These child protection laws need to be revamped and the agencies involved removed from the immunity that the law provides. They need to be accountable and held to a high standard of proof before they meddle.

Just my thoughts.

[Sabatier]

Who takes their kid to the hospital for a cold? If the kid had the sniffles better off to stay home. If Mom thought it was something more serious and the doctor did, too, it's not surprising he would order tests. There must be more to this story.

[stocksthatgoup]

"a five to ten percent chance the little girl had meningitis".