A prominent physician publicly suggested Felitti’s patients were fabricating abuse histories.

Evidence

Felitti will later describe this moment as the most professionally isolating of his career. He had documented a pattern in almost two hundred patients. He had done it systematically. He had the medical records. The question was suggesting that his patients were lying — not to protect themselves, but to explain away their failure. That the pattern was not real. That it was self-serving fiction. — , The Rod and the Child, 9477