Chapter 27: Medical DetectiveGAIL HOPED SHE HADN’T been too forceful in her questioning. She felt like she had pulled a string and kept unraveling Janina’s defenses until they had all come undone. But she needed to pull that thread, that continuous line of questioning, to get to the truth. Janina’s words were haunting. So all along, she had been trying to punish herself. And all along she had been misunderstood by all the adults and all the professionals around her. Misunderstood by her parents and teachers, turned over to a school counselor who would be rewarded with a free vacation for sending PHEA another child who didn’t need their services, but had excellent insurance coverage. But how could this be? How could this have happened to Janina? And what was Dr. Lutkin’s role in it? Both D

