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The fate of a 16-year-old Connecticut girl at the center of a major medical custody dispute is in the hands of a Massachusetts judge, now that Bay State children's advocates have conceded Justina Pelletier should be returned to her family.

In a controversial move, Pelletier was placed in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families more than a year ago, after two reputable Boston hospitals sparred in their diagnosis of the girl.

When the girl's parents disagreed with a psychiatric diagnosis given by Boston Children's Hospital, the couple said they wanted their daughter returned to her original physician at Tufts Medical Center, who had previously treated Justina for mitochondrial disease, a group of rare genetic disorders affecting cellular energy production.

Lou and Linda Pelletier, of West Hartford, Conn., were then accused of "medical child abuse," which led to Massachusetts officials taking full custody of the girl.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06 ... turned-to/

MachineGhost wrote: The fate of a 16-year-old Connecticut girl at the center of a major medical custody dispute is in the hands of a Massachusetts judge, now that Bay State children's advocates have conceded Justina Pelletier should be returned to her family.

In a controversial move, Pelletier was placed in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families more than a year ago, after two reputable Boston hospitals sparred in their diagnosis of the girl.

When the girl's parents disagreed with a psychiatric diagnosis given by Boston Children's Hospital, the couple said they wanted their daughter returned to her original physician at Tufts Medical Center, who had previously treated Justina for mitochondrial disease, a group of rare genetic disorders affecting cellular energy production.

Lou and Linda Pelletier, of West Hartford, Conn., were then accused of "medical child abuse," which led to Massachusetts officials taking full custody of the girl.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06 ... turned-to/

Sorry, but this does not sound like abuse by medicine.  The nature of medicine (which I practice and see practiced every day) is that there are often cases which are less than 100% clear cut:

"reasonable minds can differ" as a medical mentor of mine put it  otherwise known as ask 3 doctors (about a complicated case) get 4 differrent opinions.

The asshats who had the power to remove the child and the rules that allowed that are the problem.

I think what really happened is better told in the linked original story.  Basically, some quack in the ER quickly decided that the girl was suffering from psychosomatic symptoms -- not a genetic metabolic disorder -- and furthermore decided it was also the parents fault she was like that -- and so it just snowballed from there.  Parents got upset and started yelling and threatening to have the licenses of all the staff involved suspended, etc.. -- a perfectly understandable response if they were upset a being accused of "faking it" -- so the staff called in the Gestapo. 

I mean, sometimes tact and keeping it to yourself is the only way to deal with the many brainwashed minions.  Inflaming them or loudly arguing with them just threatens them and they will think you're some kind of dangerous out of the box kook.  You do not force a confrontation about the evil consequences of the state while the drama is in progress!!!  But I sure can sympathize with the family about dealing with arrogant, unlistening medical "professionals".