When I was in the psychiatric section of the Emergency Room of Boston Medical Center on the night of October 1, 2014, I heard young children screaming "NO" and crying. First it was one child, then another.
I finally asked if the psychiatric section is next to a pediatric unit. I was told that it is.
I was hearing the screaming through the wall.
What is happening at Boston Medical Center? Is it blatant sexual or other child abuse, or is it that the doctors schedule painful procedures in the middle of the night so that parents and most staff don't hear the screaming? That would also mean that the parents aren't with their children to support them through those procedures, wouldn't it? Then what happens? Is it that all parents see the next day are pale, tired children who are unable, because of their age, to describe what has happened to them?
Why isn't research being done to make medical procedures less painful for children, and why is hospital administration leaving children to be tortured in the middle of the night, with no parents around?
Copyright L. Kochman, November 4, 2014 @ 7:38 a.m.
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