Dr. Randy Alexander

And most everybody that's a child abuse pediatrician goes to at least several conferences a year or so.

And we discuss various things that are going on.

And of course, we have the literature and all that.

So there's really a pretty big educational component that goes on to something like this.

And it's not trivial by any means.

i guess i just noticed that you know people that aren't in the subspecialty aren't doing that so you know it could it's not that they are necessarily wrong but um they certainly don't have quite as much proof that they've been working at it as the people that do this and that's what you want i mean i want my

My doctor that's in some sort of a special, I want them to be really good at it and, you know, keep getting continued education and do all these sorts of things.

And that's something that the child abuse pediatricians, much less pediatricians in general or anybody else, you know, to keep up their licenses and things they have to do.

You know, the state has it too.

In my particular state, I have to have 20 hours of training per year.

20 hours of training per year.

To do child abuse work, I have to have eight hours training in child abuse per year.

Now, that's pretty easily accomplished when you work in a field.

You get that almost at a blink of an eye because there's so much stuff you're doing.

In point of fact, people are pretty good at this stuff, and I would have a fair amount of confidence in general if I was anybody in the public about how good this is going.

Well, you know, kids have accidents and physical injuries and this and that.

Even some kids will get a couple of broken bones and, you know, and a parent will say, oh my God, you know, you're going to think I abused a kid.

And then you laugh about it and we laugh about it and then nobody thinks anything about it afterwards.

You know, I mean, we're aware of that.

You know, many of us have had kids of our own