Dr. Randy Alexander

I mean, I'm sorry, what insanity has gripped you that you think that's how we run our lives?

We don't get up in the morning and hit the alarm clock and say, well, let's go out and get somebody in trouble.

We don't do that.

And in particular, again, we're going to be child centered.

And so we want what's best for the child.

And that might be stay with your parents.

It might be that it's a bad situation.

You need to go someplace else.

We don't know to start out.

So we're going to work off on the facts.

And then if even if we reach a conclusion, this child's unsafe, we still have to, as you said, work through all the various layers of things.

You know, does everybody else in the system agree or not?

Well, first of all, I suspect the critics don't really know how this works because the way they're portraying it, the way you described it, that's not how it goes.

So I'll just personalize it.

So I'm sitting in my office.

How am I going to know if there's a kid in the hospital that we should look at?

That means somebody at the hospital, some other doctor, not a child abuse pediatrician, some other doctor has seen this child, made an evaluation, probably done various testing things, maybe not.

Some things are so obvious, you know, you see right from the beginning.

But they would have made their own evaluation and said, I think something's going on here.

Or maybe they actually think it went on there.