College Student Who Suffered A Traumatic Brain Injury Tells Her Parents Something They'd Never Want to Hear

Mistaken Identity

As it turns out, this was Whitney and not Laura. Richard McNally, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, did a study on this case. He said that it was pretty simple. This was a case of mistaken identity and intense grief. When the doctors told the grieving parents that this was their daughter, they were eager to believe it. Plus, the victim was extremely beaten up by the accident. It was hard to tell…

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