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occurred just as her family, due to a job change, came under the care of a health maintenance organization. Let's see, ProtectiSheild Blue another subsidiary of AM Inc. After a long recovery, at home, hospitalization was deemed unnecessary, she became preoccupied with eating. Later, she had to be intermittently restrained due to food rages. She beat in the refrigerator door - they had to replace it - she beat it with a bat when she was hungry screaming, 'Why does everybody smell so bad?' Simply opening the refrigerator door to get the food didn't occur to her. They kept her fed as hunger and rage were the same. Thirst was similar. She actually broke the water spigot from the kitchen sink trying to get water. Turning the knob for water was easy for her when she wasn't thirsty. There was a lack of simple problem solving during these rages. After these thirst and feeding rages she would collapse on the floor exhausted, and wet her pants and sleep - sometimes for an hour. Her mother pleaded and demanded evaluation of her daughter's problem. The ProtectiSheild gait keeper told her that eating disorders were common in young girls. She would outgrow it. Besides, with behavior like that, she needed a good spanking. Rather than yield and get an EEG, on incessant prodding from the mother with written complaints, a specialist visit - it was called - was allowed. That specialist, Dr. Patel, officed in the next room, had no diplomas to indicate any specialty training in neurology but asserted that she had a special interest in problems like this. The story was retold and the final advice was to sit on Katie when she gets out of hand, and if need be, slap her until she stops." Bela's head was hanging like that of a low tone baby. "The mother presented this child to us for a general exam without any history. 'Just tell me what you think,' she asked of us. Katie was obviously ataxic, had grossly abnormal reflexes, and an inability to mimic hand gestures. Later in the conversation, her mother