Suspicions of medical child abuse delayed my child’s cancer diagnosis

It was November 2014. I was leaving the parking structure of my local children’s hospital when I realized, “They don’t believe us.”

I didn’t know it at the time, but it would take seven more months to find the cause of my eight-year-old daughter’s unremitting abdominal pain. An ultrasound ultimately revealed a malignant mass on the adrenal gland. Ultrasound is a rudimentary imaging technique, so why did it take …

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