Leaders at Wisconsin hospital pledge to investigate after NBCNews investigation revealed internal concerns that some child abuse specialists asked other physicians to edit children’s medical records to assist with Child Protective Services investigations.
The article on Cox’s case also detailed a growing rift at Children’s Wisconsin between its small team of child abuse pediatricians and several treating physicians who say members of the abuse team go too far in their efforts to assist Child Protective Services and prosecutors.
The doctors described an “out of control” child abuse team that is too quick to report minor injuries to authorities and that is too closely aligned with state child welfare investigators. Three of the physicians recalled being pressured by some child abuse pediatricians to alter medical records, removing passages where they had initially reported having little or no concerns about abuse, though there’s no evidence that happened in Cox’s case.
In the letter to staff Monday, hospital leaders said the child abuse team knows best in these matters.
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