In early March, Judge Johnson put Justina Pelletier's medical care back with Dr. Korman/Tufts

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63. Well, that infant couldn't speak for himself; a fifteen year old can.

I don't really know about this case either. That link doesn't sound like a decisive exoneration, either--there's a lot of "I feel" and "I believe" but it's not cast in stone, despite a somewhat misleading headline. I'm not saying the woman caused her child's difficulty, mind you--just saying I don't know. This article breaks down the issues on both sides:

Groups like Patrick's Mothers Against Munchausen Allegations say doctors make such accusations when they cannot find the cause of a chronic illness or when they are tired of interacting with what they believe is a troublesome parent.

Dr. Eric Mart, a psychiatrist and author of "Munchausen by Proxy Reconsidered," said some doctors are overzealous in their accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, either because they are troubled by annoying parents or because they are experts in the disorder and have a bias towards identifying it.

"There's an old saying in medicine: You find what you look for and you look for what you know," said Mart.

False accusations do occur, but according to Feldman's research, they are rare. Reviewing 350 documented cases of Munchausen by Proxy, Feldman found just seven where mothers had been falsely accused. Medical records of children of Munchausen mothers often show years of medical tests, as if doctors are doing everything they can to avoid accusing mothers. Doctors do not like to think ill of patient's families, and of mothers in particular, Feldman said.

"It's counterintuitive that any mother would do this to her child."

I suppose if you are one of those seven out of three hundred and fifty, you would be justifiably annoyed.