Tag: child abuse pediatrician
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A Response to Naomi Schaefer Riley on Child Abuse Pediatricians from a Former CPS Social Worker
This essay is in response to this piece written by Naomi Schaefer Riley. I was a Child Protective Services (CPS) case worker in Kansas for ten years and investigated over 1400 reports, some of which involved child abuse pediatricians. I currently work as a therapist in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) in Kansas and…
Andrea Verbanic
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Is Child Abuse Pediatrics Really a Specialty?
When my twin sons were five, my husband built a treehouse in our backyard complete with a trapdoor, porch, climbing wall, rope ladder, and zip line that sent the kids from the tree house porch across the yard to another tree. It was just as fun as it sounds. Not content to use the zip…
Andrea Verbanic 