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

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122. we also have the story of Dr. Korson and the Globe was able to access medical records

and other documentation, as well as interviewing some of Justina's friends.

So we have more than just the parent's story.

I condemn the Children's for completely barring Dr. Korson and Justina's gastroenterologist from her care. I have written elsewhere here, diagnosis is normally based on a combination of all the information you can gather. That includes clinical signs and symptoms, patient's medical history, patient's family history, patient's personal history (such as travel, what they've eaten, etc. depending on presenting symptoms). This is not my personal opinion. This is what I learned in Med Lab Tech school, and what I see every day at work.

Even if they disagreed with the diagnosis, it was in Justina's and Children's best interest to contact her gastroenterologist, who is a Children's doctor, for detailed information on her clinical symptoms and his treatment of them, as well as Dr. Korston to confirm what tests were run, what the results were and how he arrived at his diagnosis, and why he was treating her in the specific way that he was. They also could have gained valuable information on how best to communicate with her parents to gain their trust.

Instead, they even shut their own gastroenterologist out of the discussion, as well as Dr. Korson, and simply took away her pain medication, her cardiac medication, and various other meds. I suspect it was interdepartmental politicking run amuck. In so doing, I think they've left themselves wide open to malpractice.