By Vivek Sankaran, The Chronicle of Social Change, February 17, 2020
Last week, NBC ran a troubling story involving Wisconsin doctor John Cox, who lost custody of his daughter after he accidentally fell asleep on top of her. He feared he broke her collarbone so he immediately called his wife, also a doctor. While the baby appeared to be fine, his wife suggested he take her to the hospital.
But in Cox’s words, “[T]aking her to our own hospital was the single most harmful decision that we made for our baby.”
According to the story, a nurse practitioner misinterpreted the baby’s birthmarks as bruises. A pediatrician misread a crucial blood test result. Despite the fact that 15 medical experts reviewed the record and determined that there was little reason to suggest that the child had been abused, Wisconsin child welfare authorities still removed the child.
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