Sons Pediatrician Falsely Claimed Child Neglect After Refusing Treatment

(OH) My son (6 months) is medically complex and has multiple specialists. He also has a general pediatrician to handle all of his normal developmental stuff. He’s had symptoms that his pediatrician would brush off like low BP, fatigue, stomach issues, frequent illnesses and a chronic cough along with MANY others. He began rapidly losing weight after a month of no weight gain so I brought him to his pediatrician who accused me and my husband of neglect and intentional malnourishment. He told me to feed him better and come back in a month. Dr. even put in my son’s file that he suspected abuse and neglect so he felt no need to do blood work or any referrals to another specialist despite me asking for GI specialists and basic blood work. I’m unsure if he actually filed a report to CPS but he did document he suspected that we were intentionally depriving our baby of food.

We got a second opinion at another practice at the recommendation of my son’s cardiologist who was concerned about the lack of action. The doctor recognized the preexisting symptoms and weight loss and ordered an extensive work up. Today I found out from bloodwork that my son has hypothyroidism and more than likely an autoimmune disorder (pending more testing) and that based on the bloodwork and his rapid weight loss, they have been sitting untreated for a few months minimum despite me bringing my concerns to his doctors attention for the last few months. I’m worried about the false neglect claim but also the fact that the Dr. blatantly ignored my complaints for months just to turn around and blame us for everything when it started to drastically go south.

Is there anything we can do to protect ourselves from this false claim and/or hold the doctor accountable for their clear negligence? My baby has textbook symptoms of hypothyroidism according to this new doctor so it seems concerning that nothing was done but accuse us of neglect.