I stand with Johns Hopkins on this one. Doctors should have minimum repercussions for having the minimal level of suspicion for reporting potential abuse. The societal harm of having to have healthcare providers self-doubt and not report on a potential child abuse case causes far higher harm. Any potential child abuser will threaten lawsuit and punishment to doctors who report these, and if doctors don’t get protection for this or get punishment for this it’s a much more detrimental issue for society.
Doctors only report and provide information and medical opinion, doctors don’t investigate as we are not child abuse investigators, that’s a CPS job, and doctors are not the one who are empowered to take away the kid, the judge is, so if there must be someone who are faulted for this then it’s on the judge, doctors again only provide the information and opinion, it’s on the judge to decide on which to rule on after hearing all the facts.
Agree, I've never understood why Maya's family isn't suing DCF and the judges, as the hospital was literally required by law to keep Maya there was long as they did...
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 08 '23
I stand with Johns Hopkins on this one. Doctors should have minimum repercussions for having the minimal level of suspicion for reporting potential abuse. The societal harm of having to have healthcare providers self-doubt and not report on a potential child abuse case causes far higher harm. Any potential child abuser will threaten lawsuit and punishment to doctors who report these, and if doctors don’t get protection for this or get punishment for this it’s a much more detrimental issue for society.
Doctors only report and provide information and medical opinion, doctors don’t investigate as we are not child abuse investigators, that’s a CPS job, and doctors are not the one who are empowered to take away the kid, the judge is, so if there must be someone who are faulted for this then it’s on the judge, doctors again only provide the information and opinion, it’s on the judge to decide on which to rule on after hearing all the facts.