Andrea Dunlop

So I do think doctors do a lot of that questioning and self-doubt and also just because emotionally it's so uncomfortable.

And now you have this added thing of

Doctors, and especially doctors that handle child abuse or really doctors that work in pediatrics, are very aware of what happened in the Kowalski case and some of these other lawsuits.

So not only are they now pausing to think, could it be this?

Because how common is that?

It's not an everyday thing, but I think anyone who's working in pediatrics long term is going to see cases.

I think anyone who works as a school nurse for 20 years is going to see cases.

And so now they're not only pausing to think, oh, are my instincts leading me wrong?

They have to think, too, if I report this, is it going to end with me as the villain of a Netflix film getting constant death threats, harassment, being driven out of my career, etc.?

Which is not a position we want to put doctors in, I assure you.

And...

There's a lot of press about false allegations of child abuse.

And the thing I want to make sure people really understand is that if you are concerned about parents being falsely accused of child abuse, you want as many child abuse pediatricians as possible because the data shows us that they rule out half of the cases they evaluate.

And they are only called in when there's already a suspicion by other doctors of abuse.

And so we drive all the child abuse pediatricians out of their job, which is something that a bunch of people are trying to do.

You will end up with more families falsely accused of abuse, not less.

100 percent.

You're correct.

And most of the major cases that I've looked at have crossed state lines in some capacity.

And, you know, it's really for all those reasons that you've said.