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Families allege LVHN doctor wrongfully accused them of child abuse

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. – At an emotional Lehigh County Board of Commissioners meeting Wednesday night, dozens of families who say they were affected by alleged "medical kidnapping" by Lehigh Valley Health Network spoke out against the hospital's treatment of children.


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The families' comments were encouraged by a report titled "The Cost of Misdiagnosis," which Lehigh County controller Mark Pinsley released on Wednesday.

The report claims there is a "systemic overdiagnosis" of medical child abuse in the Lehigh Valley. And while the report does not name specific facilities complicit in the overdiagnoses, LVHN's John Van Brakle Child Advocacy Center — located at 1627 W. Chew St. in Allentown — is the only facility in the area that manages such child abuse cases.


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