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Dr. Randy Alexander

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676 total appearances

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Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And they appreciate that like they would anything in medicine.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

You know, I mean, they could go to their primary care doc and get that diagnosis, too, perhaps.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

You know, we're all trying to pull together here to figure out what's going on.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And we have no incentive whatsoever to have it be one way or the other.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

We don't care when you walk in.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Now, the other thing is we try not to be swayed whether we like the parents or not.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

You know, because sometimes what will happen is not very often, but you get people that say, well, they were nice parents, so they wouldn't do it.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And you go, well, what are you saying, that if you don't like the parents, they must be bad?

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

I mean, that's pretty biased.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

In point of fact, you should decide it on the data, not on whether the parent's nice to you or you're warm enough to them.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Otherwise, you're going to introduce bias.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And bias is wrong.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And that's not how you decide things.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Well, first of all, that's a really common thing we get.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

People that overuse the medical system can be abusive.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

If every day you got poked with a needle and somebody said, well, you're getting poked with needles, that's good.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

We'd say, no, it isn't.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

At some point, that's not good.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

You know, so one of the things is that when you have a type of thing where it presents as overuse, people fall back on that.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Well, they're going all the time to a doctor.