Dr. Randy Alexander
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And that's the way it is.
And I think that's a truism that's been true way beyond medicine.
And it's true in all kinds of areas.
And for the most part, that probably seems to work.
I think that sometimes people find these cases interesting because the perpetrator says, I didn't do it, which, you know, they do that in a lot of things.
And then and sometimes they get off on that because they only hear one side of it, you know, from perpetrator.
And then HIPAA and all these other things, confidentiality stops us from talking about what is it.
in the first place that they start thinking, you know, well, we're just going to believe the one thing that we're being told.
And you don't know what all the other stuff is.
I mean, I've had cases where the media went crazy about these doctors were terrible and blah, blah, blah.
And then the parent admits to it.
You know, take these with a grain of salt.
You know, it's one thing to say the parent said that they didn't do it.
That's great.
You know, I mean, that's a fact.
But then when you start to pick up on that as an agenda in reporting on it and you say, well, they must be innocent.
No, they said they didn't do it.
That's what you know.
You don't really know all the details of it.
And the other thing is, do you really think that doctors who've got busy schedule and are working hard, do you think we just sit around and make things up because we have nothing else to do?