Andrea Dunlop

And I was like, oh, I know exactly what they're doing with that specific quote.

Right.

They're trying to make her sound like, oh, this is such exciting work for me.

And like, this is such a good time.

You know, it just I found that to be.

quite a telling editorial choice.

Yeah, well, I mean, I think this quote really struck me because I say that about my job all the time, you know, where because people are like, oh, well, is that hard working on those cases?

And I say, yeah, like there are some really emotionally challenging moments.

aspects to doing this work and looking exclusively at child abuse cases.

And I always said, I was like, but I'm never bored.

Like it is, it's fascinating work.

That doesn't mean that like, I'm glad it's happening.

And like, hurrah, I get to be a true crime podcaster because you know what I mean?

It's like, it's just such a, it's such a disingenuous, it's such a purposefully disingenuous.

There's something especially troubling about vilifying child abuse pediatricians, because to my mind, it's kind of a miracle that you can find doctors to do this work at all.

It's emotionally grueling, it's not especially well-paid, and now they have to deal with being excoriated in the press and tied up in court with lawsuits.

And we need them.

According to the National Institute of Health, 18% of children will experience physical abuse.

And abusive head trauma is the leading cause of death from physical abuse in children under two.

And the job of a child abuse pediatrician isn't to, quote, find abuse, as it's often portrayed, but to determine abuse.