The Role of Child Abuse Pediatricians in Child Welfare Cases
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- Category : Massachusetts Human Trafficking
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Did you know that there’s a sub-specialty of Pediatrics called “Child Abuse Pediatrics?” I didn’t until I read this article (WXYZ, 1/29/19). Did you know that a physician can become board-certified in that specialty through the American Board of Pediatrics?
Did you also know that many people reject the very concept of that specialty because they doubt that any doctor can accurately intuit the cause of a particular injury? They can diagnose the results of physical traumas to the body, like broken bones, ruptured spleens and many others. But what caused those injuries, in the absence of reliable descriptions of what happened, edges into the realm of guesswork.
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