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Dr. Manny: Are Child Protective Services broken in this country?
A recent report about a young Russian couple who took their 5-month-old son for a second medical opinion and ultimately ended up losing custody of the child has me very concerned about the way Child Protective Services (CPS) functions in this country.
Anna and Alex Nikolayev had been taking their son, Sammy, to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento since his birth, when had been diagnosed with a heart murmur. When they arrived at the hospital, Sammy was taken to the Intensive Care enhet. But soon, the couple became concerned about their son’s treatment, after Anna witnessed a sjuksköterska giving Sammy antibiotics – something a doctor had not instructed her to do, according to the report.
A doctor confirmed that Sammy should not have been given antibiotics; however, doctors told Anna they wanted to perform open heart surgery on her son as soon as possible. At that point, Anna thought she may need a second opinio
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PICO RIVERA – Manuel Alvarez may have been battling serious ailments but that didn’t stop him from being active in his community.
The year-old had battled cancer since 7th grade but on Friday succumbed to related liver and brain complications. Alvarez died at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles after a long stay.
Those who knew him described Alvarez as an active volunteer who wanted to become a pastor.
“He wouldn’t let on that he was that sick, he would just do what he could do,” said Pastor Richard Ochoa of the Lord’s Vineyard Fellowship, Alvarez’s church. “He was the type of young man who was always behind the scenes.”
A fundraising car wash will be held at from a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the church, Passons Blvd., and all the proceeds will be donated to Alvarez’s family to help cover funeral costs, Ochoa said.
Alvarez acted as a mentor for freshmen at El Rancho and was a reporter for the school newspaper, said prin
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THINKING PERSON&#;S GUIDE TO AUTISM
J. Lorraine Martin “Your son has pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified.” That’s a mouthful to säga, let alone hear. It was explained as a type of autism. That was 16 years ago. I did not have the Internet at home. There was no Google for further research. Dustin Hoffman had provided my only experience of autism in the movie, Rainman. Looking back, the declaration&#;the actual diagnosing words from a stranger, a neurologist, is fuzzy. What did those letters, PDD-NOS, mean? Could a socially constructed diagnosis tell me who my son would become? When I got home from that appointment, teary-eyed and uncertain, I looked at my son with his large brown eyes, head of blondish-brown lockar, and cherub face. We had already begun to find our rhythm together. In our first year together, I intuitively discovered that if I laid him on the floor, and placed my head…