Mom of Sick Connecticut Teen 'Collapses' in Court After Judge Sends Kid to Foster Care

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40. Tufts diagnosed and treated successfully for Mitochondrial Disease for 2 years.

Children's sees her for 3 days and a young doctor with 7 months experience decides it's not Mitochondrial Disease and brings in a young psychiatrist who decides it's a mental illness -- and the parents are charged with "medical abuse.'

A year later, and Children's has *still* not allowed their own gastroenterologist, who also is one of Justina's regular doctors, to examine her -- despite her GI problems.

They bring in DHS, who's representative is linked to Children's (no conflict of interest here), and within 4 days, the parents have lost custody of their daughter.

And Children's, by the way, is getting a reputation for this, having taken 5 children in 18 months because they disputed another hospital's diagnosis.

See the links to the Boston Globe articles below.

It is arrogance by Children's to refuse even discuss her case with her regular doctor, who has repeatedly attempted to get a round table of all the doctors involved for a comprehensive care plan.
It is also interdepartmental, political arrogance within Children's, between their psychiatry and gastroenterology.
And it is conflict of interest, where DHS has close ties with Children's.