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> The hospital staff did not know Mr. Roberson had autism and misinterpreted his non-neurotypical demeanor as a lack of concern for his daughter. The nightmare

> The hospital staff did not know Mr. Roberson had autism and misinterpreted his non-neurotypical demeanor as a lack of concern for his daughter. The nightmare. Being calm and rational during a crisis gets interpreted as a "lack of concern"

FireBeyond 2y ago
Right? I've been a paramedic-firefighter for 15 years. I was one of the responders when the Amtrak Cascades train came off of a bridge at 85mph onto I-5. One of my partners admired traits in me is "how I always remain calm and logical, even in stressful situations". Hm.
rossant 2y ago
Yes. Same thing happened to me. They used this as an excuse to remove my baby from me. [1] [1] https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-baby-syndrome-abusive-head-trauma-controversy/ https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-...
- Sakos 2y ago
  > I disturbingly realized that what I had been told at the hospital, namely that subdural and retinal hemorrhage in infants are almost always caused by violent shaking even in the absence of external evidence of trauma, was an assertion based on very weak scientific foundations. And yet, this “shaking hypothesis” (sometimes referred to as the theory of the “triad”, since encephalopathy is frequently associated with the other two signs, subdural and retinal hemorrhage) has been taught as though it was a proven fact to generations of physicians all over the world. Every year, thousands of children are removed from their parents, and thousands are prosecuted, convicted, and even incarcerated, on the basis of this assertion. Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer qualifies SBS/AHT as a “medical diagnosis of murder”. The very least we should expect for an assertion this powerful is that it should be based on reliable scientific foundations. This is fucking maddening. It's so frustrating when we take things like this for granted as if it's scientific fact, especially when it's something that has such dire consequences for the parents.

FireBeyond 2y ago

Right? I've been a paramedic-firefighter for 15 years. I was one of the responders when the Amtrak Cascades train came off of a bridge at 85mph onto I-5. One of my partners admired traits in me is "how I always remain calm and logical, even in stressful situations". Hm.

rossant 2y ago

Yes. Same thing happened to me. They used this as an excuse to remove my baby from me. [1] [1] https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-baby-syndrome-abusive-head-trauma-controversy/ https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-...

Sakos 2y ago
> I disturbingly realized that what I had been told at the hospital, namely that subdural and retinal hemorrhage in infants are almost always caused by violent shaking even in the absence of external evidence of trauma, was an assertion based on very weak scientific foundations. And yet, this “shaking hypothesis” (sometimes referred to as the theory of the “triad”, since encephalopathy is frequently associated with the other two signs, subdural and retinal hemorrhage) has been taught as though it was a proven fact to generations of physicians all over the world. Every year, thousands of children are removed from their parents, and thousands are prosecuted, convicted, and even incarcerated, on the basis of this assertion. Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer qualifies SBS/AHT as a “medical diagnosis of murder”. The very least we should expect for an assertion this powerful is that it should be based on reliable scientific foundations. This is fucking maddening. It's so frustrating when we take things like this for granted as if it's scientific fact, especially when it's something that has such dire consequences for the parents.