Justice For Families

Lynne Wrennall

Dr Lynne Wrennall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology with the
Public Health Research Group, Criminology Programme, School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University

Lynne has written on the subject of the use of false allegations of MSBP made against women in the past - attracting the attention of America's leading supporter of MSBP - Dr Louisa J. Lasher with particular regard to a previous article of Dr Wrennalls - Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/Fabricated and Induced Illness: Does the diagnosis serve economic vested interests, rather than the interests of children? http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306987706007547 (note this is a chargeable-download paper.)

Lynne has now written a new paper, entitled Misdiagnosis of Child Abuse Related to Delay in Diagnosing a Paediatric Brain Tumor and made it available through a free PDF download through a new academic publisher - Liberatas Academica.


http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=803

Title: Misdiagnosis of Child Abuse Related to Delay in Diagnosing a Paediatric Brain Tumor

The title perhaps provides a substantial indicator about the content.
Although rumours abound that medical staff routinely accuse parents, notably women, of MSBP, as a means to distract from a proper medical diagnosis...it's unlikely that such a comprehensive - and damning example of such behaviour committed by paediatricians has been so well documented as in this paper. There can be no greater condemnation of medical staff who have so comprehensively failed both their patient - a little girl eventually diagnosed with a brain tumour, and their profession than the paragraph;

Some nine months elapsed between symptom onset and eventual accurate diagnosis. When the symptomatology of the case is assessed against the available knowledge, the delay is found to have been avoidable.

Abstract

Conflicting opinion regarding the relative weight that should be allocated to the investigation of organic causes of child illness, compared to the pursuit of suspicions of child abuse, has generated considerable public debate. The discourse of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/ Fabricated and Induced Illness is at the centre of contention. In particular, concern has arisen that children’s medical needs are being neglected when their conditions are misdiagnosed as child abuse.

This paper documents a case study in which the use of Child Protection procedures was linked to the belief that the child’s illness had “no organic cause.” The case study is contextualised in a review of literature relevant to the diagnostic process.

The deployment of the Child Protection perspective resulted in significant delay in the diagnosis of the child’s brain tumour. The child was ultimately found to be suffering from an optic chasm mass lesion involving the hypothalamus and the medial temporal regions, resulting in Diencephalic Syndrome. The evidence in this case is that erring on the side of suspecting Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/ Fabricated and Induced Illness, was not “erring on the side of the child.”

Several lessons need to be learned from the case. The importance of ensuring that the Child Protection perspective does not displace adequate assessment of alternative explanations for the child’s condition is emphasised, as is the need for good communication in medical relationships. Strategies involving empathy, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution may provide a more appropriate and therapeutic alternative to the use of Child Protection procedures in cases where the diagnosis is contentious. The need to re-write relevant policy, protocols and guidance is imperative.

It seems to me parents are routinely blamed for any problem their child has - even more disturbing is that fighting for your child and refusing to be fobbed off are taken as indicators that the parent is the one with the problem. My son went undiagnosed for two and a half years for this very reason, they kept saying it was my parenting and so didn't bother to carry out the appropriate assessments. Eventually they accused me of exaggerating his symptoms and making the whole thing up. When he was finally assessed they found I'd actually underestimated his problems; they were more severe than I had realised.

how many more parents are to be accused of fabrication or exegeration
of childs medical conditions, the docs should be held accountable.

The Americans are SERIOUSLY into MSBP.

They cannot tolerate dissent. So when I start quoting the HOL to them, they positively freak.

It's free entertainment.

Go to Youtube, search for MSBP, and then put in comments from Lynne's report...


Stand well back, and light touch paper.

Secrets I get sent a lot from someone in Canada , Dr Wrennall Says she is bang on about most things. I will ask permission to send links to the information. Do I have to ask permission to contribute on this forum first?

I am new here

I hope the link works , with more team work and sharing information globally we can work out the answers to the false allegations of child abuse and help families gain access to appropriate medical treatment for their children in time.
Also rescue children who are taken into care and used in trials by the corporate parent.