Dr `don't-know' read Caitlin's death sentence from dictionary; DAUGHTER'S RARE BRAIN CONDITION MAY BE HELD AT BAY BY A SIMPLE VITAMIN DISCOVERY.(Vital)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: January 22, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: NAN SPOWART

MARION and Dave Stewart were expecting to be told that their five- year-old daughter's brain scan results showed that she was a bit deaf.

Instead, the consultant got out his medical dictionary and read out Caitlin's death sentence.

In a bare room over a cup of hospital tea, they were handed the book so that they could read the short paragraph about the little- known Leigh's Disease, which told them to expect their little girl to go deaf, dumb and blind and not to live for long.

It couldn't have been more shocking.

Marion, 40, recalled: ...

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