Texas Pathologist Criticizes Child Abuse Pediatricians – Wants Law Put in Place to Protect Parents!

NBC News along with the Houston Chronicle is continuing their series in exposing medical kidnapping.

Mike Hixenbaugh and Keri Blakinger recently published an article featuring Dr. Michael Laposata, chief of pathology at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who has a history of helping parents wrongly convicted of child abuse by Child Abuse Pediatricians. See:

How to stop doctors from misdiagnosing child abuse? Don’t rely on just one opinion, experts say

Dr. Laposata, along with other Texas doctors and Texas lawmakers, want to see the law changed so that courts do not rely solely on the opinion of a single “Child Abuse” doctor as an expert. They want to require that courts always listen to testimony from other doctors as well.

Laposata said doctors and government officials must acknowledge what is widely known across all fields of medicine: Even good doctors make mistakes. Such errors are so common, researchers estimate that 12 million Americans receive a misdiagnosis every year, sometimes with devastating consequences.

For that reason, Laposata believes that additional medical experts should be consulted at the start of these cases rather than after an abuse diagnosis has already been made.

“It’s so crucial that we get this right at the beginning and not after a child has been wrongly taken from parents, or worse, sent back into a home where he’s being abused,” he said.

Laposata is advocating for a model he piloted a few years ago, when he moved to Texas and assembled a multidisciplinary team to provide free case reviews for parents who believe they’ve been wrongly accused.
As we have been reporting for years here at Health Impact News, Child Abuse Pediatricians are generally not an expert in any other medical field, such as neurology or other specialties, which would allow them to look for other medical reasons that could be misinterpreted as “abuse.”

Pediatric Child Abuse “Experts” are NOT Experts in Anything!

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