Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

The kid was 17 and wanted to be like everybody else and really wanted to stop taking care of his illness completely. The parents went to a guy who claimed to be able to treat diabetics and the guy told the kid he could reduce---NOT STOP--the number of injections per day. Chances are very good the kid just stopped them. Teenagers are a notoriously tough sell when it comes to taking care of a chronic illness that sets them apart from the other kids.

I'm not sure the parents would even have a case in the US, where they are apparently not living.

This whole thing is just sad. It would be nice to have a regulatory agency overseeing this stuff and which would discipline Balamurgan for overstepping his bounds because he was not an endocrinologist and was incapable of treating diabetes. It's likely not going to happen in India, where the names would indicate this took place.