Dr. Randy Alexander

And of course we don't always, in our outpatient clinic, we have looked at our own one.

There's literature on the subject somewhere between about 35 to 50% of the time.

You don't call it child abuse.

Now, what happens is people suspect it might be.

And so they make a child abuse report and they should do that by law.

And then we look it over and we say, well, is that really child abuse or not?

And then it may not be, or we may not quite have enough evidence to say for sure.

And that's okay.

If we don't have it, we don't have it.

and so again the numbers are depending what you're looking at about 30 to 50 or so so we don't call everything child abuse uh by any means in fact one of my one of my favorite things and i know this would be true for sally smith deb jensen and every other child abuse pediatrician in the united states but

One of the favorite things is you walk into a room and it's some other condition and it kind of you can see why they thought about child abuse, but it's not child abuse.

Now, by and large, you're hoping that other condition isn't something that's even worse, you know, like, oh, my God, you got a fatal disease, you know, that kind of thing.

But but sometimes you get that.

And I've had that experience a lot in my life, you know, that there's something else going on.

And yet I understand why someone thought there's child abuse and they come to us to figure out, you know, what's going on and all.

So we're not a rubber stamp.

Everything's child abuse at all.

And people characterize it that way.

You know, they must think that in medicine.

Anytime you go to a doctor with a concern about something, they're always going to diagnose something.