Dr. Randy Alexander

We just recently, my institution, we had a thing where Department of Children and Families kind of wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Kid had bruises all over.

And you take one look at it and you gasp is like what?

And so we had to kind of prod them to bring the child in and then do our evaluation and all that sort of stuff.

And when you have people that do that, sometimes you make a little bit of waves and was both Sally and Deb.

I think, you know, at times they did that, but it's always, if I had done it, it would have, I think it might've been better.

Um, you know, just as a male, uh, and older that, you know, all that stuff is a cultural stereotype.

and i think that was one thing it's a little harder having said that they've done this stuff for decades and you know these couple things that come up is not the same as all the hundreds and hundreds of cases they've done that they've not had these issues with and so you know we can speculate about all the various cultural factors that you know occasionally work against them but

In point of fact, imagine that somebody says, I didn't do it, I'm innocent.

It's like, well, I think the jails are full of people that say that.

And there might be one or two people where that's true, but you know, most of the time it's not.

Well, first of all, it's that kind of stuff does occur.

It doesn't occur in all the cases by any means, but it does occur.

And it's basically a defense attorney strategy of sorts.

Or if it's not conscious, at least it's what they're unconsciously doing.

And their job is to try to get their client off.

And we're interested in the child.

I mean, as pediatricians, guess what?

That's what our job is.

So we're going to look at it that way.