Have you guys been following this case?

Parents lose custody of teen after seeking 2nd medical opinion; girl indefinitely detained in psych ward | Police State USA

Father So Heartbroken About Daughter Held at Hospital Against His Will He Just Defied a Judge?s Order to Talk to Us: ?I Want to Have All My Guns Blazing? | TheBlaze.com

This has been going on for a while but this girl was being treated by one hospital for a rare and controversial disorder (mitochondial disease) at Tufts but went into another hospital and was dxed with a psych condition instead---its basically a conversion disorder so they are in essence saying she is faking her illness and needs to be treated so she realizes she's not really sick. Right now she's at a neutral facility where is is receiving neither medical or psych treatment and is allowed very limited contact with her parents. I admit I don't know much about mitochondrial disease but Tufts is a well respected institute and a lot of diseases like chronic fatigue were considered "fake" for a long time but one of the overriding factors in this case is the pdocs are arguing that by getting treatment for their daughter they are actually causing her to feign illness. So they were keeping her from seeing her parents at all and while in the psych ward she was actually getting worse essentially because she had an untreated illness. So basically imagine you had diabetes or something and they kept away your insulin because they thought you were faking it and then went on to lock you away for months so you couldn't possibly get any treatment. That's basically what's happening here and frankly its chilling that anyone could have the power to keep you from life sustaining medicine. Clearly psychiatry has too much power when something like this can happen based on opinion when there is clear medical data suggesting she has a physical illness. There seems to be in the law a sense that all pdocs are good caring individuals and that they have a persons best interest at heart but I think they are a much more varied lot and clearly opinions vary from person to person on diagnosis so how valid is any of it. I can only imagine back in the day a doctor stating that someone refusing the leeches for their child was promoting their death---while the drugs prescribed by pdocs are pretty well understood, the "illnesses" that pdocs treat have no such standardization leaving it a matter of opinion and not of much more value than the common leech.