Andrea Dumlop

Here's Dr. Mendez at trial with attorney Howard Hunter.

Dr. Mendez was one of a series of medical professionals to independently document concerns about a psychological element to Maya's symptoms, and the second provider, the first being Bonnie Rice from Tampa General, to explicitly mention Munchausen by proxy concerns, though he did not report these concerns to DCF.

Maya's pediatrician, Dr. Wassenauer, who received this note, did not share Dr. Mendez's concerns for abuse.

Incidentally, although Dr. Cantu testified that a psych consult was part of his protocol, it's unclear if Maya was ever given one.

Despite the outsized role he played in this case, Maya only saw Dr. Kirkpatrick in his office four times.

Once for an evaluation, a second time for a four-day ketamine infusion, for a follow-up post-infusion, and then for a check-in after the ketamine coma procedure he'd referred her for.

Okay.

Here's Jack Kowalski in Take Care of Maya explaining what they did next.

Dr. Kirkpatrick's ketamine clinic is cash only, and the four-day infusions he performs run about $12,000 a week.

So in January of 2016, Maya had an initial consult with Dr. Ashraf Hanna, and she began treatment with him days later.

Dr. Hanna is a Florida pain management physician and anesthesiologist who advertised as, quote, the world's leading ketamine doctor on billboards around the area and online under the moniker NoPainHanna.

Like Kirkpatrick, Hanna is a self-described expert on CRPS, but is not trained in pediatrics.

And also like Kirkpatrick, he's a ketamine guy.

A previously recorded deposition from Dr. Hanna was played in court.

According to records, Dr. Hanna started Maya off with 4.5 milligrams per kilogram per hour.

And by the time he was finished treating her, according to testimony from Dr. Elliot Crane, a recognized expert in pediatric pain medicine and CRPS, Maya was receiving an exceptionally high dose of ketamine.

Mind you, an anesthetic dose means enough to knock you out cold.

And indeed, ketamine has been in use the longest for this purpose.

The doses used to treat pain are much lower.

All in all, between her first visit with Hannah in January of 2016 and her hospitalization at Johns Hopkins All Children's in October of that same year, Maya would receive 55 ketamine infusions from Dr. Hannah in escalating doses that doctors would later testify were 15 to 100 times the recommended amount.