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

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195. In children it requires a general anesthetic.

I know because my niece had one. I also know that even if the test is negative, the child still might have mitochondrial disorder. Since it doesn't necessarily provide a definitive diagnosis, or necessarily affect the treatment, it is within the standard of good medical practice to skip the muscle biopsy and rely on a clinical diagnosis. Which in this case was also supported by the sister's muscle biopsy. Often when they find a disease like this in one family member, they don't go through all the same testing with other family members who have symptoms of the same disease. When the treatment -- some vitamin supplements -- doesn't involve any risk, that's perfectly reasonable. (The treatments she had that involved risk would have been necessary whether or not she had a mitochondrial disorder.)

The judge didn't "document" anything about the state of CT. He made a vague statement without any documentation.

You have never responded to the fact that the girl had been working with a mental health therapist for years, even before she worked with the Tufts doctors, and yet the Children's hospital didn't consult with the therapist or Dr. Korson or her G.I. doctor before locking her in the psychiatric ward. Doesn't this sound like the height of hubris to you?