You can try to involve extended family members and community resources and work with the family to develop a medical plan that everyone understands. The doctor may also recommend further medical diagnostic tests and treatment with other providers if necessary. Ultimately, they can refer the matter to children`s services if no other recourse is available. Your lawyer can help you represent yourself in court if you are summoned. You can also hire a local family advocate if you need to report cases of medical negligence that you are aware of. This can help prevent injury or complications to the child from a medical condition. This blog has been written by the editors of STM Learning for educational purposes only. It is not intended to give specific medical or legal advice. Expert information on the topics covered can be found in STM Learning publications. Medical neglect is defined as the failure of a parent or guardian to provide adequate medical or dental care to a child. This is especially true in cases where medical care is required to treat a particular injury or illness and the absence of such care seriously endangers the child`s health. This may also apply to cases where the child needs psychiatric help or emotional counselling and the parent or caregiver refuses to provide it. Child neglect is considered one of the most common types of child maltreatment worldwide (Mennen, Kim, Sang & Trickett, 2010), with a meta-analytic review of reviews estimating the global prevalence of child neglect (among nearly 60,000 participants) at about 16% of children for physical neglect and just over 18% for emotional neglect.

Nevertheless, child neglect is thought to attract the least scientific and public attention of all other forms of abuse, a situation researchers have called “neglect of neglect” (Mulder et al., 2018; Stoltenborgh, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & Van IJzendoorn, 2013). A broad definition of child neglect could be the repeated failure to meet a child`s physical or psychological needs, resulting in serious impairment to children`s health or development (Dubowitz, 2014). Of course, this broad definition is problematic for a number of reasons. First, it may not correspond to definitions in different jurisdictions, leading to problems with the validity and interpretation of translations. Second, neglect most often results from lack of care rather than harm, which can obscure perceptions of burdensomeness, and third, societal norms across cultures, socioeconomic status, and domains, and state jurisdictions are likely to influence expectations of what is “good” parent and what is not (Elliott and Urquiza, 2006; Mennen et al., 2010). Five subtypes of neglect were offered: care-related neglect, medical neglect, educational neglect, supervisory neglect, and environmental neglect (Mennen et al., 2010, p. 647) (Table 1). These include medical neglect, child prostitution and pornography, honour and race violence, bullying, online sexual exploitation and institutional abuse. It can be a very frustrating and intimidating time when your family is torn apart, your children are cared for by someone else, and you are falsely accused by the state of neglecting your child`s medical needs. What you need now is a persevering and hard-working lawyer on your team.

Call The Kronzek Firm today. We will fight furiously for your family and defend you against the lies and false accusations of the state. We are here for you and can help. Infants with DS account for about 1 in 792 live births in the United States. According to a recent estimate, the number of people with DS in the United States stands at 206,366, including 138,019 non-Hispanic whites, 27,141 non-Hispanic blacks, 32,933 Hispanics, 6747 Asian/Pacific Islander and 1527 Indians/Americans. The prevalence of DS in the U.S. population was estimated to be 6.7 per 10,000 population (or 1 in 1499) in 2010. As a result, research into the biology of DS and the search for treatments to relieve or prevent medical conditions in children and adults have never been more urgent. Not surprisingly, the presence of an extra copy of nearly 500 protein-coding and non-coding genes leads to numerous abnormalities. DS affects many organ systems: cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, immune, reproductive, musculoskeletal and nervous (Fig. 1).

There are certainly other situations that the CPS or physicians could claim to be medical negligence. But these should cover the basics and give you an idea of possible scenarios that could lead to allegations of medical negligence. The intervention is a very serious step, usually reserved for very serious cases of medical negligence, such as: There is no consensus on the concepts of identity (e.g., activity model, center-periphery models, narrative models, basic functional model: Witt, Kuhn, Timmermann, Zurowski and Woopen, 2011), personality or character, but a lively philosophical and psychological debate. For our purposes, it can be quite approximate to distinguish personality as a psychological concept with standardized testing tools to describe and the detection of identity disorders as a philosophical concept to answer the question of re-identification and characterization (Schechtman, 1996).