17-year-old diabetic boy dies after stopping insulin injections on advice of acupuncture therapist

[Warpy]

5. No, and when something's life threatening, you need

to take care of it properly, no matter if you're a kid and it makes you feel like a freak. His parents should have kicked him in the slats and continued to ride him about taking care of it properly instead of finding a quack who told him what he wanted to hear. Taking him to a hospital when it was clear he was getting severely ill would also have been a good idea.

I don't know how quacks manage to instill such total confidence in their victims but they do. Telling the parents that the kid's condition was normal when he was clearly about to die would get the quack hung up by his scrotum here, no matter whether or not the parents were blaming themselves instead of the quack.

Teenagers being what they are, the whole thing was made worse than it had to be.