Dr. Randy Alexander
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But that doesn't mean at the end of the day, you don't end up having a conclusion and that, you know, you don't have a diagnosis.
from this whole sort of thing.
And I don't think they were saying that.
Now, a couple of my colleagues seem to say that more explicitly than some of the other ones who are talking about more the process of thinking it through, which is right.
Of course you want them to think it through.
I wouldn't want any diagnosis to be arrived at real quickly.
I will tell you that there are times where it's obvious and you don't have to spend any time thinking it through.
I'm sorry, I just saw a kid that was all beat up the other day and
It didn't take any time to know that.
I mean, you know, it's like, how hard is it?
And it was more like it's sad.
It's not a diagnostic challenge.
And so I think that in that sense, I'm not sure if that completely came through because you're kind of focused on the operations of doing this.
which was right, but I don't want there to be the sense that there's ambiguity in this, or that we're, you know, these things are so hard we can't reach diagnoses.
We do it all the time, and they testify about it all the time as well.
So, and they're called by other doctors to come see the kid because they already decided that there's child abuse issue going on, probably, but they need us to help confirm it.
So in that sense, I think it was okay, but I wouldn't want anyone to walk away, you know,
interpreting it in such a way as to say that a couple of the people were talking about great ambiguity.
That's not really the case.
Well, I think you're right about the bad face.