Public Demands Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Doctors Be Held Accountable

Following Gypsy Rose Blanchard's prison release on Thursday, December 28, the public is now demanding the doctors who "treated" her need to be held accountable. 

Throughout Gypsy Rose's life, her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard convinced her that she had several medical disorders including epilepsy, down syndrome, and asthma. She also convinced Gypsy that she was paralyzed from the waist down, forcing her to need a wheelchair, and needing a feeding tube.

Dee Dee went as far as keeping up with doctor's appointments, and convincing them that Gypsy needed surgeries and certain medications.

In a now-viral TikTok, many individuals who have followed Gypsy Rose's case are questioning why the doctors have not been looked at.

"Yep. This is our Country," one user wrote, adding, "Gypsy Rose suffered and [doctors] did nothing. But Maya got taken from her mom and her mom killed herself. Makes no sense."

Another claimed, "The system fail[ed] this baby so bad."

Many other comments stated similar things, such as, "They should be sued for medical malpractice. They broke the Hippocratic Oath 'do no harm'," and "The [doctors] and dentist could have stopped all of this, yet they carried the torture towards gypsy."

One user simply wrote, "She should sue every doctor."

Another social media stated, "She needs to go after every single doctor and nurse any home care people that did her wrong. I would, you better believe it."

As one individual pointed out, "It just shocks me how they let her have these surgeries without actually testing or proof."

In 2017, Kristy Blanchard, Gypsy’s stepmom, stated that she and the rest of the family were trying to hold the doctors accountable, but no one wanted to take the case.

"We are in the works with that right now," Kristy said at the time, per Yahoo. "We reached out to a few lawyers that work in malpractice. None of them want to touch it. They reject us every time. But maybe now that the documentary is out, and they get to see it, they’ll think differently."

She added, "So we’re in the process of trying to find that lawyer that’s gonna want to take this case on. I mean, like [Dr. Bernardo Flasterstein] … It kind of made me angry that he didn’t want to report it, and like he said, Gypsy wasn’t being abused. She was being “over-treated.” To me, it’s the same thing. You’re over-treating a child."

Kristy then confessed that Dee Dee had medical experience, as the two worked in the same hospital together at one point.

"I was the receptionist, and she was a nurse’s aide," Kristy admitted. "So even though she’s going to nursing school, she’s working at a hospital, I’m the receptionist — you still pick up things in your work environment, you pick up things."

"So it’s not that she didn’t have a medical background — she did," Gypsy's stepmom added.

For years, Dee Dee abused her daughter, Gypsy Rose, convincing her family, and the public, that she had several medical conditions that resulted in her "needing" a feeding tube and to utilize a wheelchair.

In fact, medical records state that Dee Dee brought her daughter to local hospitals over 100 times over the course of nine years.

Seven years ago, Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection to the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. She had convinced her then-boyfriend to stab her mother to death as she was abusing her for years.

After her guilty plea, Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was released on parole on Thursday, December 28 after serving 85% of her 10-year sentence.