Dr. Randy Alexander
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And they appreciate that like they would anything in medicine.
You know, I mean, they could go to their primary care doc and get that diagnosis, too, perhaps.
You know, we're all trying to pull together here to figure out what's going on.
And we have no incentive whatsoever to have it be one way or the other.
We don't care when you walk in.
Now, the other thing is we try not to be swayed whether we like the parents or not.
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.
And you go, well, what are you saying, that if you don't like the parents, they must be bad?
I mean, that's pretty biased.
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.
Otherwise, you're going to introduce bias.
And bias is wrong.
And that's not how you decide things.
Well, first of all, that's a really common thing we get.
People that overuse the medical system can be abusive.
If every day you got poked with a needle and somebody said, well, you're getting poked with needles, that's good.
We'd say, no, it isn't.
At some point, that's not good.
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.
Well, they're going all the time to a doctor.