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S05 Ep06: Human Timebomb

2025/2/6
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旁白: 我妹妹的孩子在婴儿时期遇到了问题,这让我感到越来越不对劲。他被诊断为发育不良,需要插入鼻饲管来帮助喂养。妹妹开始谈论我的侄子需要进行胃造口术手术。这件事发生在我妹妹长期欺骗行为的背景下,包括她自己可疑的手术、假装怀双胞胎以及戏剧性地失去那些从未存在的婴儿。即使亲眼看到超声波图像,我仍然不确定我的侄子是否真实存在。我意识到我早就知道她的真面目,并且一直在努力向自己隐瞒。但推动他进行不需要的手术越过了我的底线。我的父母和家庭医生见面,医生告诉了我们这种模式的名称:代理型孟乔森综合征。我认为我们不得不进行干预,因为我们别无选择。我希望每个家庭都能这样看待问题,人们总是相信自己亲眼所见。

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This chapter delves into the diagnosis of Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) given to Sophie’s daughter, C. It questions the legitimacy of the diagnosis based on the rarity of the condition, inconsistency in reported symptoms, and lack of witness accounts.
  • C's AHC diagnosis is questioned due to inconsistencies in reported symptoms and lack of witness accounts.
  • The severity and frequency of episodes reported by Sophie are outliers compared to AHC research.
  • The reported duration of paralysis (32 days) is exceptionally long and unusual for AHC.

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Sophie insists to police and others that the real problem isn’t that she’s abusing her daughter but that Seattle Children’s–a world class pediatric hospital–simply doesn’t understand her daughter’s rare condition: Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood.   

But according to police interviews, very few people in C’s orbit ever witnessed an episode, and if they did, they described symptoms that, alone, are not indicative of AHC. We also hear snippets of interviews stating that Sophie often presented AHC as a terminal illness, a claim that Dr. Zupanc refutes. 

Dr. Jill Glick, a child abuse pediatrician from the University of Chicago, returns to talk us through the process hospitals go through when evaluating medical child abuse cases. We also go through a few of the many inconsistencies in Sophie’s reports to C’s various doctors. Sophie claims that C could die at any moment from AHC: but does she even have it? 

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Watch Human Timebombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbjprd9v9Y)

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More about Dr. Jill Glick: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/jill-c-glick)

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