"Hewent tothedoctorat leastonce per week," mymotherrecentlyrecalled. "he'd callthe doctors all thetime, and after a while they didn'twant totakehisphone calls."
That's the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment.