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

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75. I just don't feel qualified to "do the Frist," particularly when one could also say

that where there's smoke with regard to the parents, there's fire.

The ER doctor wasn't the only one who looked at her, they kept her for quite a few days and she saw a number of physicians before they came to the conclusion that they thought something was amiss. And every report I've seen that goes into any depth says that the child's affect with regard to her illness changed markedly in the presence of the mother.

CT Child Services had a problem with them awhile ago, their own family pediatrician says they're pains in the asses, they're lawsuit-happy and bit the one hand that could have fed them by threatening to sue the one facility that might have put the child back IN CT, and the only representation they can manage to scare up for their "Just(ina) cause" are rightwing nutjob attorneys who really are on the LOW end of the low quality scale. The people screaming that there's this massive injustice being done are from the Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh/Fuck Obamacare and Socialized Medicine Will Kill Us All end of the spectrum.

And most telling--CT could have ended this by doing that evaluation and taking the case back from MA, as the judge wanted. Yet they are conspicuously silent and passive, like they've got a ten foot pole at the ready!

It might be this teen was jealous of her sister, or it might be that her parents get some kind of feel-good feedback out of encouraging the conduct. Little kids are sponges--they parrot bullshit their parents teach them and they're ripe for indoctrination, which can persist to adulthood. And this poor kid was learning disabled to boot. She had fewer tools than the average kid in that regard. But I can't pretend I know--there's plenty we don't know about how this kid feels or what she thinks; we just have the parents'/family's word about her attitude and state of mind.

The Globe report basically said that the Tufts doctor kind of swagged the diagnosis; he didn't do a lot of testing, he just kind of went on the aggregation of symptoms and the fact that there was another in the family, he also seems like a very agreeable kind of fellow, a conflict-avoider....but at the end of the day I really don't know what the deal is, here and don't want to leave the impression that I do. I do know the parents aren't doing themselves any favors by acting like jerks and attempting to rally a lot of flakes to their cause.

I will say, one of the comments I read over at the Herald (charming nutjob rag...!) about getting back at these horrible people at DCF/the hospital with some "Smith and Wesson" insurance, and making a "hollow point" to them, made my skin crawl.