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Stanford Medicine finds racial disparities in child abuse reporting
Original post made on Feb 7, 2023
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 9:04 AM
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 7, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Consider Your Options. is a registered user.
Disturbing report.
a resident of another community
on Feb 7, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Jennifer is a registered user.
Underreporting child abuse is even worse than overreporting. You're keeping a child in an abusive home. You would think someone could tell by an injury whether it's abuse or not. When in doubt, report the abuse. Better safe than sorry.
a resident of another community
on Feb 7, 2023 at 6:22 pm
MyFeelz is a registered user.
Doctors are supposed to be mandated reporters. However, by putting something permanently in a medical record that can be tied to caregivers, doesn't help ANYONE. It casts suspicions on the caregivers FOREVER. And it seems like Stanford is trying to get Epic to get their ankle in a trap by implementing in their software an item that could be considered a violation of a caregiver's civil rights. But hey, let's just arrest everyone and put a permanently engraved accusation in a medical record that will be globally shared forever. Instead of calling it "Megan's law", lets call it "Stanford's Law".
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