Yes, I know, that’s a pretty extreme headline, but I don’t think it’s far from the truth. In my backyard, a psychiatrist (who has since taken paid leave from his job) unbelievably diagnosed a girl at 2 1/2 years old with not just one, …
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Yes, not only is it an extreme headline, John, but it’s an outrageous one.
“Very early diagnosis leads to girl’s death.”
Who on earth do you think you are? Fox News? Without one iota of evidence, you blame this child’s death on the psychiatrist, on the diagnosis, on the psychotropic medications, on Dr. Biederman, etc. That is just so disturbing.
It is one thing to issue warnings in a general way about exercising cautions, but you were calling for this doctor’s head on a platter.
You should at least straighten out the record with the actual facts of the case, including that the four medications given (from all that I understand, to EXCESS, by the PARENTS), included two over-the-county cold/cough medications.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19916822/detail.html