Second fracture misdiagnosis at Starship’s child protection unit

Second fracture misdiagnosis at Starship’s child protection unit

Newsroom’s investigative podcast series, Diagnosis of a Crime, has uncovered a second case in which independent international experts say there is no evidence of a baby having fractures, in direct contrast to the findings of Starship Hospital’s child protection unit. Those findings played a key role in a Central Otago farming couple losing custody of their newborn twins. The couple spent close to $300,000 in a two-and-a-half year battle against …