Deric Cahill, a Flower Mound resident, says a local pediatric clinic he went to earlier this month falsely reported him to Child Protective Services after he...
. After a nurse took a look at Rowan, a doctor came in, looked in his ears, checked his throat and listened to his lungs, Cahill said. The entire interaction lasted about five minutes, Cahill wrote in a now-deleted Google review shared withA screen capture of Deric Cahill's Google review about his experience at Children's Health PM Pediatric Urgent Care Flower Mound.
Cahill said he was surprised by how transactional the doctor’s visit felt, communicated his dissatisfaction and left the pediatric clinic. As soon as he got to his car, Cahill said he left a one-star Google review for the medical facility and wrote an email outlining his frustrations. Then the couple drove home.A Texas Child Protective Services case worker notified him they had gotten a report of a “severely dehydrated child in need of medical attention,” Cahill recalled.
“We explained to [the case worker] that we were going to seek a second opinion and then they left without incident,” he said. Tiffani Butler, a spokeswoman for Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said there are few safeguards for preventing false reports about child abuse and/or neglect. Reports can be ruled out following an investigation, but there is “not really any way” to track false reports, Butler said.
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