Dyan Neary

The conventional wisdom in child welfare is that lots of child abuse goes unreported.

Mark and these families were not challenging that wisdom.

Instead, they were bringing up a different problem.

Here in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, they were describing a crisis of over-reporting, of over-intervention, of false accusation.

For my part, I had never heard of so many families from one small place all claiming that one health care network had misdiagnosed their kids with disastrous results.

Mark's report and his recommendations, they were about investigating and reforming what looked like systemic problems within the hospital and CYS.

Which, sure, of course.

On the other hand, I'd just heard testimonies by so many people, all mentioning this one doctor, someone they couldn't seem to get through to.

In this grandmother's story, in all these stories, it sounded as if this doctor had made up her mind and wouldn't budge.

That's what I wanted to know, too.

Next time.

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