We accept and acknowledge the likelihood of long-term trauma resulting from rape.
 
We accept and acknowledge the likelihood of long-term trauma resulting from child abuse.
 
We accept and acknowledge the likelihood of long-term trauma resulting from war.
 
But we only barely accept and acknowledge long-term trauma that can result from medical treatment—-no matter how necessary that treatment may have been at the time. When the medical treatment happens to us in our childhood, it has the potential to leave particularly pernicious scars….