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Over the past several weeks, we've been talking about Serial's new podcast, The Preventionist,

and the significant issues with their reporting on child abuse pediatricians.

And the harm this reporting does is very real.

First to the children involved, but certainly also to the doctors who are tasked with protecting them.

Dr. Stephen Boos, a child abuse pediatrician we spoke to at length for our upcoming season, said in an

interview with journalist Naomi Riley last month that his colleagues are the subject

of so many threats that many have had to install security systems. He also notes a concern about

attracting young doctors to the profession, and Dr. Sally Smith spoke to us the other week about

the death threats and harassment she's received as a result of misleading media coverage that

she's been the subject of.

Which I dare say may very well be the point of all this.

And it can be pretty challenging to unring the bell here.

For example, there was endless media coverage of the Kowalski's lawsuit against Johns Hopkins

all children's, mostly extremely favorable to them. However, the appeal in the

hospital's favor? Not so much. And while we can't speak to Dr. Jensen at the moment because of

the pending litigation, as we've been discussing, the people who should actually be evaluating

whether child abuse pediatricians are doing their work properly, are people with expertise in the field.

And thankfully, there's almost no one in the country with more expertise than today's guest, Dr. Randy Alexander,

a professor of pediatrics, and notably, the one child abuse pediatrician whose voice was featured in the

preventionist. Not only does Randy have a wealth of

experience in the field, he also knows both of journalist Diane Neary's targets Dr. Deborah Jensen

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