In February 2013, a 14-year-old girl named Justina Pelletier was “medically kidnapped,” according to her family, and kept for more than a year by authorities at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH).
While at BCH, doctors allegedly rejected Pelletier’s then-diagnosis of mitochondrial disease, which she had received from a team of doctors at Tufts Medical Center, stopped providing her with medication for that disease, and diagnosed her instead with somatoform disorder.
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